I want no part of making any contribution whatsoever to the despair which eventually follows downbeat thinking.

To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.

Aging is mostly the failure to repair.

When I was a teenager in Accomack County, the class I most enjoyed was a vocational skills course on small engine repair.

There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.

Actions aimed at supporting deleveraging and balance-sheet repair - such as recognizing losses, writing down assets, and recapitalizing banks - carry longer-term benefits but short-term costs.

When I'm not creating something, I get bored; I despair.

When I was a teenager in Accomack County, the class I most enjoyed was a vocational skills course on small engine repair.

Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair.

I'm a sneakerhead. I probably have a couple hundred pair of shoes. I got all sorts of shoes.

There is one advantage to having nothing, it never needs repair.

It's so much easier to count our disadvantages than tot up the mitigating circumstances that generally outweigh the despair.

Action is the antidote to despair.

The euro pleases dispirited people for whom European history is not Chartres and Shakespeare but the Holocaust and the Somme. The euro expresses cultural despair.

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

When I first moved to Paris, I worked as an au pair for two girls aged eight and 11.

I do have a lucky pair of underwear.

You know, I write songs, I repair guitars.

Dan Radcliffe and Rupert Grint to me are like a pair of warm-hearted brothers.

When any part of the Station is moved from its designated location to do a repair, we really risk losing things.