#pressed

I didn't realize there was a ranking." I said. "Sadie frowned. "What do you mean?" "A ranking," I said. "You know, what's crazier than what." "Oh, sure there is," Sadie said. She sat back in her chair. "First you have your generic depressives. They're a dime a dozen and usually pretty boring. Then you've got the bulimics and the anorexics. They're slightly more interesting, although usually they're just girls with nothing better to do. Then you start getting into the good stuff: the arsonists, the schizophrenics, the manic-depressives. You can never quite tell what those will do. And then you've got the junkies. They're completely tragic, because chances are they're just going to go right back on the stuff when they're out of here." "So junkies are at the top of the crazy chain," I said. Sadie shook her head. "Uh-uh," she said. "Suicides are." I looked at her. "Why?" "Anyone can be crazy," she answered. "That's usually just because there's something screwed up in your wiring, you know? But suicide is a whole different thing. I mean, how much do you have to hate yourself to want to just wipe yourself out? ↗

— Michael Thomas Ford

#arsonist #arsonists #bulimia #crazy #depressed

As I've said many times, the single most oppressed class in America right now is the teenager. ↗

— Joe Bob Briggs

#america #class #i #many #most

I have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all. ↗

— Oriana Fallaci

#expressed #i #opinion #through #word

I am depressed rather at the wave of brutality sweeping over the country. ↗

— John Burns

#brutality #country #depressed #i #i am

The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense, and every particular affection of the heart, are equally interested or disinterested, because the objects of them all are equally self or somewhat else. ↗

— Joseph Butler

#appetite #because #disinterested #else #equally

What you have said, Mr. President, fully satisfies me that you have given to every proposition which has been made, a kind and candid consideration. And you have now expressed the conclusion to which you have arrived, clearly and distinctly. ↗

— Salmon P. Chase

#been #candid #clearly #conclusion #consideration

The same practice was continued every evening through the whole course, and with the same success. Many individuals expressed their gratification at having discovered such simple means of relieving the tedium of a long discourse. ↗

— George Combe

#course #discourse #discovered #evening #every

I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

#dangerous #differences #expressed #high #honest

I think anybody would be hard pressed not to relate to at least one of the characters, because there's so many different multifaceted people populating this crazy world. ↗

— Michael C. Hall

#because #characters #crazy #crazy world #different

I don't know what I would have done without believing in God. His support gives me power and energy to continue to be optimistic, to smile, not to be depressed. Sometimes, if things are not going so well, I don't cry. I say maybe it's meant to be. ↗

— Ofra Haza

#continue #cry #depressed #done #energy