Virtue is an excellent thing and we should all strive…

You know Mildred would never do anything wrong or foolish. I reflected a little sadly that this was only too true and hoped I…

— Barbara Pym

“...this was depressing, much the way discovering that somebody is easy to manipulate is always a little depressing.”

— David Foster Wallace

Sometimes it's a little depressing - why does the world need any more pictures?

— Jason Fulford

Obedience is a virtue of so excellent a nature, that Our Lord was pleased to mark its observance upon the whole course of His…

— Saint Francis de Sales

I like swimming or go to the gym, but I am alone a lot, and that can get a little depressing.

— Beth Hart

“To look at my world as my only plane of existence was so limiting, and a little depressing. I needed the boundless worlds I…

— Katie Ray

Maybe it's a little depressing to think that my vision of a perfect world is actually so messed up, but I think it means…

— Veronica Roth

I dislike nothing more than finding fault with a man's nature or talent; it only depresses and worries and does no good; one cannot…

— Felix Mendelssohn

...just as the edifice of all the virtues strives upward toward perfect prayer so will all these virtues be neither sturdy nor enduring unless…

— John Cassian

It is good to preserve the name, wealth, and honors you inherit, but it is better in every way if you yourself create a…

— Roman Baldorioty de Castro

Do nondoing, strive for nonstriving, savor the flavorless, regard the small as important, make much of little, repay enmity with virtue; plan for difficulty…

— Laozi

Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.

— Willa Cather

It is true that from a behavioral economics perspective we are fallible, easily confused, not that smart, and often irrational. We are more like…

— Dan Ariely

There is not a country on earth that could get its fiscal house in order by shrinking opportunity and depressing growth.

— Martin O'Malley

We don't make glamorous movies today. Everything now is very realistic, artistic - and depressing. When is the last time you you saw a…

— Edith Head