Archnatural Quotes & Sayings

No baby shall at any time be quartered in a house where there are no soft laps, no laughter, or no love. — Erma Bombeck

Have the moral courage to stand firm in obeying God's will, even if you have to stand alone. — Ulisses Soares

Medicine labours to restore 'natural' structure or 'normal' function. But greed, egoism, self-deception,and self-pity are not abnormal in the same sense as astigmatism or a floating kidney. For who, in Heaven's name, would describe as natural or normal any man from whom these failings were wholly absent? 'Natural,' if you like, in a quite different sense; archnatural, unfallen. We have only seen one such Man. And he was not at all like the psychologist's picture of the integrated, balanced, adjusted, happily married, employed, popular citizen. You can't really be 'well adjusted' to your world if it says 'you havea devil' and ends by nailing you up naked to a stake of wood. — C.S. Lewis

In my photographic work I was always especially entranced, said Austerlitz, by the moment when the shadows of reality, so to speak, emerge out of nothing on the exposed paper, as memories do in the middle of the night, darkening again if you try to cling to them, just like a photographic print left in the developing bath too long. — W.G. Sebald

My interest in the psychological roots of psychosis has both personal (my brother Andrew committed suicide) and professional origins (I was trained in a behaviorist approach to psychology which - whatever its limitations - at least taught me to see human behavior in its social context). — Richard Bentall

Then he would slow them again, pulling Zane closer, pressing their cheeks together in a gesture that was borderline sensual as the music moved them. Zane's — Madeleine Urban

Impact investing can be a powerful instrument of change. — Judith Rodin

No theory changes what it is a theory about; man remains what he has always been. — B.F. Skinner

All geologic history is full of the beginning and the ends of species-of their first and last days; but it exhibits no genealogies of development. — Hugh Miller

In life," she wrote, "fantastically gifted people, people who are driven, can be too much to handle; they can be a pain. In plays, in opera, they're divine, and on the screen, where they can be seen in their perfection, and where we're even safer from them, they're more divine." In the fall of 1968 she found the — Brian Kellow

We have a costume closet at home. My family will put on a costume for any excuse. — Bryan Batt

Perhaps the gods will surprise us and it will be neither."
"A true tragedy."
"Of epic proportions."
"Two longstanding rivals."
"And only one robe to bear."
"Who will win?" Darren's tone was wry. "The handsome prince?"
I grinned. "Or his valiant betrothed? — Rachel E. Carter