#pressed

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#choices #expressed #make #makes #our

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#duty #expressed #freedom #great things #honor

I went to work when I was a young fellow and I loved what I did. And I just kept working. And when I decided that maybe the time had come for me to quit, I got depressed. What could I do if I didn't work? ↗

— Mike Wallace

#could #decided #depressed #did #fellow

The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?' ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#beginning #boring #canadian #cultural #i

Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness, because I am often down, and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I think that's where my qualification comes from. Because to know happiness, it helps to know unhappiness. ↗

— Alastair Campbell

#am #because #comes #depressed #down

When I'm depressed and I feel low thinking that good movies are not made any more, then I put on his movies and I watch them. I laugh and I cry and I have great pleasure. ↗

— Geraldine Chaplin

#cry #depressed #feel #good #good movies

As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism. ↗

— Angela Davis

#against #american #black #bound #fight

One of the great things to pretend is that you're not only alright, you're in great shape. Now to have that come true - I've actually gone on stage depressed and that's worked its magic on me, 'cause if I can convince you that I'm alright, then maybe I can convince me. ↗

— Carrie Fisher

#alright #cause #come #convince #depressed

I was little impressed with this rough and ready way of persuading people to renew their contracts and decided that I was now quite free of any obligations. ↗

— Pietro Mascagni

#contracts #decided #free #i #impressed