Cetait La Quotes & Sayings

[Queen Victoria had been denouncing the Women's Rights movement] ... And after chloroform was introduced to ease the pains of childbirth, she demanded that it be used on her. Religious and medical conservatives were shocked. They said God had decreed that women must suffer in childbirth as atonement for the sins of Eve. But queen Victoria wouldn't accept this particular anti-woman's-rights dictum. She became one of the first women to use anesthesia during childbirth , and knighted Dr. James Simpson, the Scottish physician who developed this use of chloroform, though he was excommunicated by his church for doing so. — Miriam Gurko

You can't hang around geniuses forever because they end up taking everything you've got. That's why they're the genius and you're not. — Bob Colacello

Press conferences are good. I have my own philosophy about press conferences. I usually think that when they don't like the movie, they ask about other things. — Joel Silver

I wish that I could say I was optimistic about the human race. I love us all, but we are so stupid and shortsighted that I wonder if we can lift our eyes to the world about us long enough not to commit suicide. — Isaac Asimov

Forgiveness is the best part of valor ... Discretion is easy. It's finding the courage to forgive yourself and others that is hard. [Acheron] — Sherrilyn Kenyon

The word good has many meanings ... — Gilbert K. Chesterton

You have no idea of how many people have control of your life. Make lists of people you trust and love and constantly examine the people in your life. — Frederick Lenz

Darlin I am sorry, please.
No Knox, get out! you know what they say about apologies?
No,
They are better said with chocolate!
Knox & Bailey, Scarred Hearts — Elizabeth Kelly

Consider
a girl who keeps slipping off,
arms limp as old carrots,
into the hypnotist's trance,
into a spirit world
speaking with the gift of tongues. — Anne Sexton

I can't always be making 'British films.' Why should we be making films about corsets and horses and girls learning to drive when Americans send over an event movie and make five or 10 million? — Noel Clarke

The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

A team may have some great players, but typically, the team that works best together does the best. I look at running Broadcom in the same way. We have a culture where people have different skill sets, but they are happy to leverage their skills to help others and to help the company. — Henry Samueli

Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war. — Tony Blair

For there is no truth in their mouth; their inmost self is j destruction; k their throat is l an open grave; they m flatter with their tongue. 10 n Make them bear their guilt, O God; let them o fall by their own counsels; because of the abundance of their transgressions cast them out, for they have rebelled against you. — Anonymous