Definitely Not Dysfunctional Quotes & Sayings

Once a victim, always victim-that's the law — Thomas Harding

Grace always wins. — Jefferson Bethke

Don't you get the idea I'm one of those goddam radicals. Don't get the idea I'm knocking the American system. — Al Capone

I didn't have a lot of fighting experience, but I would punch an octopus if I had to, to save a life. — Abigail Barnette

I have been under considerable pressure to buy at least a laptop computer. I have always turned the suggestions down for the reason that I have never done creative work on a typewriter. There is to me a lack of empathy. — Winston Graham

This is the dilemma of science-think and yet again a situation in which scientists simply shouldn't be such scientists. Bring in the professionals, and trust them when they tell you to invest in communication. It may be frustrating and seem like a frivolous waste of resources, but what's the alternative strategy - to assume that people are rational, thinking beings? There's a famous quote by Democratic presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson, who heard a woman shout to him that all the thinking people of America were with him. He replied, "That's not going to be enough, Madam; I need a majority of the public. — Randy Olson

I'm really interested in modern history, but to fulfill a History degree at Brown you have to do modern and pre-modern. — Emma Watson

It was said of Miss Letitia that when money came into her possession it went out of circulation. — Mary Roberts Rinehart

These ways to make people buy were strange and new to us, and many bought for the sheer pleasure at first of holding in the hand and talking of something new. And once this was done, it was like opium, we could no longer do without this new bauble, and thus, though we hated the foreigners and though we knew they were ruining us, we bought their goods. Thus I learned the art of the foreigners, the art of creating in the human heart restlessness, disquiet, hunger for new things, and these new desires became their best helpers. — Han Suyin

There are filmmakers like me in different parts of the world that have a story they want to tell, and it's a story that comes out of a certain historical reality within their own life. Then you get committed all the way and however long it takes, stay very committed. — Haile Gerima

Dad smiles at me. I suddenly feel so stupid for giving up eating when I was thirteen. The ants say: Forget about it. We're all larvae once. — A.S. King

The practice of mindfulness is nothing more than focusing on the current moment. — Debasish Mridha

If some area of your life sucks - do something else. Life is too short - and too long - to spend it being miserable. Life may indeed be short but it is for a fact wide. It is high time we started settling for more. — Jill Conner Browne

Lucy- "Wow, no one ever fights over me."
Justin- "My multiple personalities fight over you constantly. There is a war going on inside me."
Rue- "This is for the war going on outside. — Holly Black