Banhart 90 Quotes & Sayings

Mental illness is among the most stigmatized of categories.' People are ashamed of being mentally ill. They fear disclosing their condition to their friends and confidants-and certainly to their employers. — Elyn R. Saks

The major point at which his reason and his sense of humor left him was when he approached the question of what people were really supposed to do with their time on Earth. He — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Oftentimes I have hated in self-defense; but if I were stronger I would not have used such a weapon. — Kahlil Gibran

But it also demonstrates how difficult it is to correct a false belief after people have made an emotional investment in that belief being true. When our heroes turn out to be sleazebags, self-deception is easier than facing the facts. — Jon Krakauer

Pat wanted to comfort him for something she did not understand. She slipped her little hand into his ... he had a warm pleasant hand. They walked home together so. — L.M. Montgomery

If education really educates, there will, in time, be more and more citizens who understand that relics of the old West add meaning and value to the new. Youth yet unborn will pole up the Missouri with Lewis and Clark, or climb the Sierras with James Capen Adams, and each generation in turn will ask: Where is the big white bear? It will be a sorry answer to say he went under while conservationists weren't looking. — Aldo Leopold

My mom didn't use face cream, like, nothing at all. She's got great skin and looks very youthful. — Lara Stone

For indeed she was a Princess - My princess. And for her, I would do anything, give anything, tell the darkest hurt from of old and reveal secret desires and passions. — Daniel Maldonado

Creativity, which is the expression of our originality, helps us stay mindful that what we bring to the world is completely original and cannot be compared. — Brene Brown

Butterflies were all very pretty in a meadow. They were altogether less comfortable in her stomach. — Mary Balogh

Take the following potent and less-is-more-style argument by the rogue economist Ha-Joon Chang. In 1960 Taiwan had a much lower literacy rate than the Philippines and half the income per person; today Taiwan has ten times the income. At the same time, Korea had a much lower literacy rate than Argentina (which had one of the highest in the world) and about one-fifth the income per person; today it has three times as much. Further, over the same period, sub-Saharan Africa saw markedly increasing literacy rates, accompanied with a decrease in their standard of living. We can multiply the examples (Pritchet's study is quite thorough), but I wonder why people don't realize the simple truism, that is, the fooled by randomness effect: mistaking the merely associative for the causal, that is, if rich countries are educated, immediately inferring that education makes a country rich, without even checking. Epiphenomenon here again. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Half the ingratitude and complacency in the world down to how slowly and imperceptibly most good and bad things unfold. — Alain De Botton

You crush me with the things you do, I do for anything too ... each moment the more I love you. — Dave Matthews

I've worked with leading men so worried about losing their charm that they were always winking to the audience. — Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio