246 New Cases Quotes & Sayings

I had a hope that the Iraqis would embrace a new government, would establish a new Iraq very quickly, and, but I never had that as an expectation. — Tommy Franks

Jill had described this kind of religious upbringing as a form of mental abuse, and I returned to the point, as follows: 'You use the words religious abuse. If you were to compare the abuse of bringing up a child really to believe in hell . . . how do you think that would compare in trauma terms with sexual abuse?' She replied: 'That's a very difficult question . . . I think there are a lot of similarities actually, because it is about abuse of trust; it is about denying the child the right to feel free and open and able to relate to the world in the normal way . . . it's a form of denigration; it's a form of denial of the true self in both cases. — Richard Dawkins

That man is always happy who is in the presence of something which he cannot know to the full, which he is always going on to know. — John Ruskin

As I continued through Cicero's pages, I found much more material celebrating my way of life ... — Charlie Munger

We cannot change past events, no matter how painful, but we can always intend how we 'feel' about them and heal ourselves. — Robert Anthony

More than anything else, I think, Maddie went to war on behalf of the Holy Island seals. — Elizabeth Wein

I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war. — Norman Schwarzkopf

It did not occur to them to refuse. They knew that if you find some person or creature in desperate need of help which you can supply you have a human duty to supply it, even if it could inconvenience or even hurt you to do so. This, after all, is how the greatest and best deeds in the world have been done, and though the children did not say this aloud, they knew it inside themselves without even thinking about it. — Mary Stewart

The discussions of every age are filled with the issues on which its leading schools of thought differ. But the general intellectual atmosphere of the time is always determined by the views on which the opposing schools agree. They become the unspoken presuppositions of all thought, and common and unquestioningly accepted foundations on which all discussion proceeds. — Friedrich August Von Hayek

I have ne'er been in a chamber with a lawyer when I did not wish either to scream with desperation or else fall into the deepest of sleeps, e'en when the matter concern'd my own future most profoundly. — Erica Jong