Flexner Report Quotes & Sayings

I know what it's like to feel snobby; I know what it's like to feel anxiety; I know what it's like to feel like busted because you're crazy. — Maria Semple

Neil had been doing one stupid thing after another all year long and this has turned into one of the best years of his life. — Nora Sakavic

The government has nothing to give to anybody that it doesn't first take from someone else. — Henry Hazlitt

Things don't matter, people do — Rosie Thomas

I'm not trying to change things in the world and trying to use my leverage to do so. The only thing I'm trying to change in the world is that I'm trying to increase the amount of useful information in it. And entertainment, honestly. — Rachel Maddow

It seems to her [Saint Catherine of Siena] that the devil has this world in his power, not by his own will, for he is powerless, but through our help because we obey him. The evil aroma rising from the ... wars which are waged by Christians against Christians, are the same as war against God ... Peace, peace, for the sake of the love of the crucified Christ, and not war; that is the only solution. — Sigrid Undset

It was the American middle class. No one's house cost more than two or three year's salary, and I doubt the spread in annual wages (except for the osteopath) exceeded more than five thousand dollars. And other than the doctor (who made house calls), the store managers, the minister, the salesman, and the banker, everyone belonged to a union. That meant they worked a forty-hour week, had the entire weekend off (plus two to four weeks' paid vacation in the summer), comprehensive medical benefits, and job security. In return for all that, the country became the most productive in the world and in our little neighborhood it meant your furnace was always working, your kids could be dropped off at the neighbors without notice, you could run next door anytime to borrow a half-dozen eggs, and the doors to all the homes were never locked
because who would need to steal anything if they already had all that they needed? — Michael Moore

When you are not happy with your life, always think that someone is happy simply because you exist — Friedrich Schiller

Many of us are in are in our own prisons that aren't made of iron bars. — Hill Harper

Nothing in this world, not even the most mundane moments of our lives, is without meaning, nor is any of it lost forever. — Dean Koontz

Holiness is the best means of influencing people. — Sunday Adelaja

We don't know nearly enough about the complexities of Nature. If we think we can eliminate natural ecosystems and substitute prosthetic devices, i.e. clean air or water with fusion energy - we are kidding ourselves. — E. O. Wilson

I'm sure it's not any wish of mine that I'm born with inclinations for better things. If I could be born again, and had the designing of myself, I'd be born the lowest and coarsest-minded person imaginable, so that I could find plenty of companionship, or I'd be born an idiot, which would be better still. — Miles Franklin

To find them all in one package ... well, perhaps better not to dwell on his package in my fragile state. — Josh Lanyon

Humility is to joyfully, voluntarily and quietly submit one's whole life to God's will, to finally use the gift of agency to give one's life back to Him. — Virginia H. Pearce