Emilce Hoy Quotes & Sayings

The constitution of madness as a mental illness, at the end of the eighteenth century, affords the evidence of a broken dialogue, posits the separation as already effected, and thrusts into oblivion all those stammered, imperfect words without fixed syntax in which the exchange between madness and reason was made. The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue of reason about madness, has been established only on the basis of such a silence. — Michel Foucault

There is the morass, wherein you plunge up to your knees, or the walking over the stubborn, dwarfish shrubbery, whereby one treads down the forests of Labrador; and the unexpected bunting or sylvia which perchance, and indeed as if by chance alone, you now and then see flying before you, or hear singing from the ground creeping plant. — John James Audubon

Everything is a starting point for something else and we work at it until we find the things that are meaningful to us. If we believe in ourselves, others will too. — Judith D. Andrade

It seemed weird calling a teenager 'sir' but I'd learned to be careful with immortals. They tended to get offended easily. Then, they blew stuff up. — Rick Riordan

Science thus tends necessarily towards an ultimate state in which all knowledge is embodied in the definitions of the objects with which it is concerned; and in which all true statements about these objects are therefore analytical or tautological and could not be disproved by any experience. The observation that any object did not behave as it should could then only mean that it was not an object of the kind it was thought to be. — Friedrich A. Hayek

You can be courageous in admitting your sin precisely because God is richly abundant in his mercy. He comes to you in mercy not because you are good but because you are a sinner, and he knows that because of this condition, you are unable to help yourself. — Paul David Tripp

For she was suffering that misery peculiar to the young, that they are going to be cheated by circumstances out of the full life every nerve and instinct is clamouring for. — Doris Lessing

We always hurt the ones we love, darling. — E.L. James

Don't be afraid to be different. — Michael Jackson

You own a flamethrower?"
"Would you believe they're legal in this state? Would you believe there are instructions for building your own that you can just take out of the public library? — Joshua Lewis

Problems arise when you identify with your thoughts and emotions. Try to be a witness to the thoughts instead of being totally identified with them. — Mata Amritanandamayi

I did answer all of the questions put to me today, ... Nothing in my testimony in any way contradicted the strong denials that the president has made to these allegations, and since I have been asked to return and answer some additional questions, I think that it's best that I not answer any questions out here and reserve that to the grand jury. — John Podesta

It's about running wild in a field of exclamation points chasing question marks — Natasha Tsakos

You don't have to give people fish everyday but instead you must give them the pole to learn how to fish themselves. — Pascal Bruckner

When I reach puberty I'm definitely going to grow a beard. — Max Beesley