Best Doldrums Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I often wonder if my imagination is one of God’s choicest gifts bestowed upon me to deliberately break me free from the frequent doldrums of my humanity.”

God Dream Imagination Vision Gift Visualize Doldrums

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If an economy in the doldrums could drift indefinitely, the price of government inaction might be graver by far than the consequences of bold unorthodoxy.”

Ifs Government Might Economy Consequence Inaction Doldrums

Book:The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers

Source: The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers

“If I were flying, I would travel to a perfect place. A place with frosted cakes and beautiful flowers and excellent trees to climb and absolutely no doldrums.”

Ifs Beautiful Perfect Tree Flower Flying Excellent Climbs Cake Beautiful Flower Doldrums

Author:Kyo Maclear

“It seems not to matter that we are at the brink of a war that may spread beyond Afghanistan and Iraq to Iran and Georgia and then where? To Syria? To North Korea? To China? That we in America are in economic doldrums and are seeing small businesses fold and houses reclaimed by banks and a smouldering panic that is palpable everywhere.”

May War Matter Seems America House Seeing Economic Iraq China Spread Iran Afghanistan Panic Syria Small Business Korea Folds North Korea Georgia Doldrums

Author:Richard Schiff

“I was in the doldrums for a while after my athletics career ended in 1992. I spent six to eight hours a day training, for 18 years, and it took a long time to get over the regret that I wasn't competing in major championships any more. All I ever wanted to be was the best. But I find new projects and I keep things in perspective.”

Years Long Wanted Hours Careers Regret Perspective Six Projects Majors Long Time Training Eight Championship Competing Get Over Athletics New Projects Doldrums

Author:Daley Thompson

“Manchester City have been in the doldrums for a while, they came up and went straight back down again.”

Has Beens Cities Manchester Manchester City Doldrums

Author:Alan Hansen

“But for me, dinner at a fine restaurant was the ultimate luxury. It was the very height of civilization. For what was civilization but the intellect's ascendancy out of the doldrums of necessity (shelter, sustenance and survival) into the ether of the finely superfluous (poetry, handbags and haute cuisine)? So removed from daily life was the whole experience that when all was rotten to the core, a fine dinner could revive the spirits. If and when I had twenty dollars left to my name, I was going to invest it right here in an elegant hour that couldn't be hocked.”

“The best time to write is when your life is in the toilet. Writing offers an escape from your problems, so if you force yourself to write when you're in the doldrums, it will have the perverse effect of cheering you up. At the very least, it allows you to inflict your pain on your characters, which has the dual effect of giving them more depth while relieving your own tension.”

Ifs Giving Writing Character Problem Pain Life Is Force Effects Offers Depth Tension Cheer Toilets Best Times Doldrums

Author:Sabrina Jeffries

“What happens in animation is that you don't really start the story until you're boarding it, which usually means that you've gotta go through some sort of a script phase. And you can get caught in the doldrums there, overdeveloping that, when you don't really know what you have until you put it up in storyboards.”

Knows Mean Stories Happens Scripts Caught Phases Animation Doldrums

Author:Doug Sweetland

“Coolidge and his treasury secretary Mellon loved new technology. Like JFK, C.C. divined that a new technology could lift the nation out of its doldrums; the only difference was that JFK's new technology was space travel, and Coolidge's travel by airplane.”

Nations Differences Space Technology Lifts Airplane Secretary New Technology Treasury Space Travel Doldrums

Author:Amity Shlaes

“A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.”

Depression Hobbies Bad Mood Overcoming Depression Doldrums

Author:Phyllis McGinley

“As a matter of policy, increasing taxes on the most economically productive group, which already generates 60 percent of the nation's federal revenues, during a sustained period of economic doldrums is a wretched idea.”

Ideas Matter Nations Groups Economic Policy Periods Taxes Percent Productive Revenue Wretched Doldrums

Author:John Podhoretz

“February is always a bad month for TV sports. Football is gone, basketball is plodding along in the annual midseason doldrums, and baseball is not even mentioned.”

Sports Gone Football Tvs Months Basketball Baseball Annuals February Sports Football Doldrums

Book:Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness

Source: Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness

“Such beauty, he thought, was too perfect to have come about by mere chance. That day in the center of the Pacific was, to him, a gift crafted deliberately, compassionately, for him and Phil. Joyful and grateful in the midst of slow dying, the two men bathed in that day until sunset brought is, and their time in the doldrums, to an end.”

Men Two Ends Chance Perfect Dying Grateful Mere Sunset Midst Joyful Pacific Unbroken Doldrums

Book:Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

Source: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

“Laziness has many disguises. Soon "winter doldrums" will become "spring fever."”

Spring Winter Laziness Disguise Fever Doldrums

Author:Bernard Williams

“Sometimes I have experienced God in extraordinary ways - in dramatic surprises or soul-expanding insights or unexplainable mystical encounters. More often, I have felt God's reality in the simple encouragement of a friend, in the gentle inspiration of a sermon, or in the familiar ritual of the Eucharist and I'd be less than honest if I didn't also say that at times, I've found myself in the spiritual doldrums, cast adrift, wondering if the wind would ever blow again.”

“Chess will always be in the doldrums as a spectator sport while a draw is given equal mathematical value as a decisive result.”

Values Given Sports Results Equal Draws Chess Mathematical Spectators Doldrums

Author:Michael Basman

“And yet, I do believe there is ultimately meaning in the chaos, and also in the doldrums. What I resist is not the truth but when people put a pretty bow on scary things instead of saying, 'This is a nightmare. I hate everything. I’m going to go hide in the garage.'”

People Believe Hate I Hate Chaos Scary Nightmare Bows Garage Scary Things Doldrums

Author:Anne Lamott