American Horror Story Asylum Pepper Quotes & Sayings

The optimist believes that bad events have specific causes, while good events will enhance everything he does; the pessimist believes that bad events have universal causes and that good events are caused by specific factors. When — Martin E.P. Seligman

Postwar America was a very buttoned-up nation. Radio shows were run by censors, Presidents wore hats, ladies wore girdles. We came straight out of the blue - nobody was expecting anything like Martin and Lewis. A sexy guy and a monkey is how some people saw us. — Jerry Lewis

If the politicization of art and education represents one large part of the counterculture's legacy, the coarsening of feeling and sensibility is another. No phenomenon has done more to advance this coarsening than rock music. It is impossible to exaggerate the importance of rock music to the agenda of the cultural revolution. It is also impossible to overstate its soul-deadening destructiveness. The most reviled part of Allan Bloom's book The Closing of the American Mind was his chapter criticizing the effects of rock. But Bloom was right in insisting that rock music is a potent weapon in the arsenal of emotional anarchy. The triumph of rock was not only an aesthetic disaster of giant proportions: it was also a moral disaster whose effects are nearly impossible to calculate precisely because they are so pervasive. — Roger Kimball

Two-thirds of the Earth is covered by water. The other third is covered by Garry Maddox. — Ralph Kiner

On the same day, two murders. — Jean Zimmerman

You know what "sorry" does? Sorry doesn't do a damn thing. — Seanan McGuire

Impulses are flowing through my brain - primal sparks leaping gaps - all so I can put my arms around you ... — John Geddes

he was taken in a secr[e]t council & you told him you had paid my expence &c - 200 Dr Foster said he never had a secret interview. - with Dr Goforth. and stated what he [blank] [p. [83]] Joseph have I ever misused you any way? Foster. said I do not feel at liberty to answer this qu[es]tion under existing circumstances. - did I ever misuse you? do not feel at libe[r]ty to answer under existing circumstances. - — Andrew H. Hedges

However dark our lot may be, there is light enough on the other side of the cloud, in that pure empyrean where God dwells, to irradiate every darkness of this world; light enough to clear every difficult question, remove every ground of obscurity, conquer every atheistic suspicion, silence every hard judgment, light enough to satisfy, nay, to ravish the mind forever. — Horace Bushnell

The modern suburb is the product of the car, the five-day week, and the "bankers' hours" of the masses. — David Riesman

Who really benefits from discouragement? More often than not, encouragement is exactly what is needed. — Tony Dungy

Oh Gertrud,' I cried, intolerably stirred by the bare mention of that
bed, 'this is a bleak and mischievous world, isn't it? Do you think we
shall ever be warm and comfortable and happy again? — Elizabeth Von Arnim

Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space. — Evan Esar

Always try to see yourself through God's eyes. — Stephen Levine

The things we don't stress tend to turn out best. Trust and let go. — Mandy Hale