Self-depreciation is a disease. Once it gets a hold on us…

Most timidities have such secret compensations and Miss Bart was discerning enough to know that the inner vanity is generally in proportion to the…

— Edith Wharton

Growing up is like a disease. It gets worse and worse every day. And in the end it kills you

— Anonymous

“..."You're getting a sort of vaccination this year. If you don't know it now, you'll find it out some day. But it's going to…

— Ruth Sawyer

“Why is self confidence arrogant? Why is self-depreciation considered modesty? I worked my ass off to be able to have a high opinion of…

— Ronda Rousey

He took pains to avoid self-depreciation, self-mockery, ambiguity, irony, subtlety, vulnerability, a civilized world-weariness and a tragic sense of history--the very things, he says,…

— Don DeLillo

A dramatic unwinding of that relationship [between USA and China], by way of an aggressive trade policy, is one of the nightmare scenarios for…

— Judy Woodruff

The foundation of humility is truth. The humble man sees himself as he is. If his depreciation of himself were untrue,... it wouldnot be…

— Henry Fairlie

One way we gave small businesses more money to invest was by extending tax provisions on expensing. This allows businesses to immediately write off…

— Dennis Hastert

Lobbyists know that a 0 percent tax rate on capital income is not, in fact, the lowest possible rate. There can be negative tax…

— Joel Achenbach

Starting in the '80s or so, after the United States sharply cut its rates, other countries decided they better do it too, and here's…

— T.R. Reid

The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of its value is false. It is scarcely less…

— Norbert Wiener

I've heard time and again from small business owners in Ohio that extending bonus depreciation is the single biggest factor in allowing their businesses…

— Pat Tiberi

The inclination to self-depreciation, to freely accepting being robbed, being duped, and being swindled, could be the modesty of a god among men.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If you're a full-time manager of your own property - and full-time, according to Congress, is 15 hours a week - you can take…

— Hillary Clinton

“In the 1954 Internal Revenue Code, a Republican Congress changed forty-year, straight-line depreciation for buildings to permit 'accelerated depreciation' of greenfield income-producing property in…

— Dolores Hayden