Abhorred Defintion Quotes & Sayings

And youth, though they see every day the cradle and grave shaped so alike, never believe death will happen to them. I told you it was a comedy. — Parke Godwin

In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy, but my generation went into the Second World War and it united the Finnish nation, so I do not see any more wounds. — Harri Holkeri

Pharisaism is not a degeneration in a good man: a large portion of it is rather the condition of all being-good. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Power is the relation of a given person to other persons, in which the more this person expresses opinions, theories and justifications of the collective action the less is his participation in that action. — Leo Tolstoy

Choice by the people themselves is not generally distinguished for its wisdom. — Thomas Jefferson

The main reason for the colossal objects is the obvious one, to expand and intensify the presence of the vessel - the object. — Claes Oldenburg

Two-thirds of the terminal cancer patients in the Coping with Cancer study reported having had no discussion with their doctors about their goals for end-of-life care, despite being, on average, just four months from death. But the third who did have discussions were far less likely to undergo cardiopulmonary resuscitation or be put on a ventilator or end up in an intensive care unit. Most of them enrolled in hospice. They suffered less, were physically more capable, and were better able, for a longer period, to interact with others. In addition, six months after these patients died, their family members were markedly less likely to experience persistent major depression. In other words, people who had substantive discussions with their doctor about their end-of-life preferences were far more likely to die at peace and in control of their situation and to spare their family anguish. — Atul Gawande

Ther is no newe gyse that it nas old. — Geoffrey Chaucer

Have your cake and eat it ... there's no other reason to have a cake — Derren Brown