Dr Francis Peabody Quotes & Sayings

This room is the strangest thing Melanie has ever seen. Of course, she's starting to realise that she hasn't seen all that much, but there are more things here of more baffling variety than she would have thought the whole world could hold. — M.R. Carey

The parallel between antifeminism and race prejudice is striking. The same underlying motives appear to be at work, namely fear, jealousy, feelings of insecurity, fear of economic competition, guilt feelings, and the like. Many of the leaders of the feminist movement in the nineteenth-century United States clearly understood the similarity of the motives at work in antifeminism and race discrimination and associated themselves with the anti slavery movement. — Ashley Montagu

Transformation
without work and pain, without suffering, without a sense of loss
is just an illusion of true change. — Wm. Paul Young

great principles, great ideals know no nationality. — Marcus Garvey

The implications of likability are long-lasting and serious. Women adjust their behavior to be likable and as a result have less power in the world. And this desire to be liked and accepted goes beyond the boardroom - it's an issue that comes up for women in their personal lives as well, especially as they become more opinionated and outspoken. — Jessica Valenti

Lord, with so much violence in Iraq, may we persevere in our prayer and generosity. — Pope Francis

If you believe in a God who controls the big things, you have to believe in a God who controls the little things. It is we, of course, to whom things look 'little' or 'big'. — Elisabeth Elliot

PORTIA
Tarry a little. There is something else.
This bond doth give thee here no jot of blood.
The words expressly are "a pound of flesh."
Take then thy bond, take thou thy pound of flesh,
But in the cutting it if thou dost shed
One drop of Christian blood, thy lands and goods
Are by the laws of Venice confiscate
Unto the state of Venice. — William Shakespeare

As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom. — Anthony Kennedy

For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles. — Theodore Bikel

I usually like whatever I've recently finished best. — John Sladek

I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been. — Wayne Gretzky