"That's why I tell stories: to create readiness, to nudge the people toward receptive insight. In their present state they can stare till doomsday and not see it, listen till they're blue in the face and not get it."
Eugene H. Peterson
"A bad girl is a far more dangerous thing than a bad boy."
Anonymous
"Why then should witless man so much misweeneThat nothing is but that which he hath seene?"
Edmund Spenser
"People aren't nice, people aren't nice, you should know that by now."
Kathleen Glasgow
"There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't."
Josh Billings
"What we do to others, we do to ourselves."
Anonymous
"I think the rules where different there. It was all about science, but the science was magical. It didn't care about whether something could be done. It was about whether it should be done, and the answer was always, always yes."
Seanan McGuire
"My philosophy is really based on humility. I don't think we know enough to fix either diagnostics or therapeutics. The future of psychiatry is clinical neuroscience, based on a much deeper understanding of the brain."
Thomas R. Insel
"There’s a saying in Hardorn,” she continued. “‘You shouldn’t attempt to teach a goat to sing. It will waste your time, hurt your ears, and annoy the goat.’ I can say without fear of contradiction that the goat is getting annoyed."
Mercedes Lackey
"It is unjust to claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of childhood."
Samuel Johnson
"Never tell a depressed person to “Cheer up.” Unless you want them to tell you to “Shut up."
Toni Sorenson
"I was like you once, long time ago. I believed in the dignity of man. Decency. Humanity. But I was lucky. I found out the truth early, boy. And what is the truth, Stark? It's all very simple. There's no such thing as the dignity of man. Man is a base, pathetic and vulgar animal."
Charles Grandison Finney
"I utilise all my spare moments. I've read twenty-seven of the Hundred Best Books. I collect ferns."
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