You could argue that Barack Obama faced in ’08 a situation as bad as any president since the Great Depression. What Obama inherited from the Bush administration, we all remember, was just an absolute global catastrophe. – Tony Kushner
You want to keep the severity of our environmental problems in mind enough to keep yourself motivated but not enough to paralyze you into depression. – Sara Gilbert
The year of my birth, 1940, was the fulcrum of America in the twentieth century, when the nation was balanced precariously between the darkness of the Great Depression on one side and the storms of war in Europe and the Pacific on the other. – Tom Brokaw
But despite historic levels of obstruction, President Obama was able to bring the economy back from the verge of a second Great Depression. – Steny Hoyer
It’s often difficult for those who are lucky enough to have never experienced what true depression is to imagine a life of complete hopelessness, emptiness and fear. – Susan Polis Schutz
There seems little doubt in my mind that depression, in particular at the severe end of the experience of this condition, is as real a disorder as diabetes is at the severe end of blood glucose levels. – Vikram Patel
My own life was filled with so much love and joy that when depression struck, it was like a prison door slamming shut and I was being placed in an isolation cell. No one else could possibly be feeling what I was. I hated my depression and all of its symptoms. – Susan Polis Schutz
When entertainment was begun, during the Depression, it was supposed to take people’s minds off reality. People could sing, dance, act or do anything. It was the type of entertainment that was available. – Tina Yothers
Stasis is something that has marked my life since I was a boy growing up in Pittsburgh with my mother. It was the natural state that we existed in. For one thing, she suffered from a debilitating depression throughout my childhood, and depression is nothing if not static. – Said Sayrafiezadeh
The greatest generation was formed first by the Great Depression. They shared everything – meals, jobs, clothing. – Tom Brokaw
I used to be good friends with my depression, saying oh I’m so depressed, or life is terrible. – Tony Curtis
As we consider the causes of depression, those of us in the church must face the ways we might be responsible for creating it. – Tony Campolo