Fontenelles Quotes & Sayings

As a system, patriarchy encourages men to accept male privilege and perpetuate women's oppression, if only through silence. — Allan G. Johnson

My hair had grown out long and shaggy - not in that sexy-young-rock-star kind of way but in that time-to-take-Rover-to-the-groomer kind of way. — Jim Butcher

Nothing substitutes for positive thinking. Nothing. It is more powerful than all the money, all the influence, all the 'friends in high places' on earth. — Neale Donald Walsch

The pleasure of gratifying whim is very great. It is known only by those who are whimsical. — James Boswell

I think it's just the whole package. I can't pick you apart. I just love all of you. I think I always have. — Cat Patrick

There is a connection waiting to be made between the decline in democratic participation and the explosion in new ways of communicating. We need not accept the paradox that gives us more ways than ever to speak, and leaves the public with a wider feeling than ever before that their voices are not being heard. The new technologies can strengthen our democracy, by giving us greater opportunities than ever before for better transparency and a more responsive relationship between government and electors — Robin Cook

The more elaborate our means of our common sense is, the less the common sense it becomes. — Joseph Priestley

Physicians do not systematically prescribe placebos to their patients. Hence they have no way of comparing the effects of the drugs they prescribe to placebos. When they prescribe a treatment and it works, their natural tendency is to attribute the cure to the treatment. But there are thousands of treatments that have worked in clinical practice throughout history. Powdered stone worked. So did lizard's blood, and crocodile dung, and pig's teeth and dolphin's genitalia and frog's sperm. Patients have been given just about every ingestible - though often indigestible - substance imaginable. They have been 'purged, puked, poisoned, sweated, and shocked', and if these treatments did not kill them, they may have made them better. — Irving Kirsch

The first girl you go to bed with is always pretty. — Walter Matthau

Wonder admits to the existence of mystery ... recognition of mystery allows the possibility of Truth. — Dean Koontz

He fucks with the single-minded devotion of a dying man hunting God. — Karen Marie Moning

You have to rise up to that state of thoughtless awareness where you grow spiritually. If you are not in thoughtless awareness, you cannot grow in your spirituality. So it's very important to see where is your attention. Where are you putting your attention? If the attention could be controlled then things will be all right. — Nirmala Srivastava