Freethought Matters Quotes & Sayings

I used to perform with the Pussycat Dolls before Nicole Scherzinger, before they were a musical group. — Jaime Pressly

Oftentimes, if you're talking to a seasoned interviewer who asks you a question, they may do a follow-up if they didn't quite get it. It's rare that they'll do a third or fourth or fifth or sixth follow-up, because there's an implicit, agreed-upon decorum that they move on. Kids don't necessarily move on if they don't get it. — Brian Greene

I have met countless patients who told me that they "are" bipolar or borderline or that they "have" PTSD, as if they had been sentenced to remain in an underground dungeon for the rest of their lives, like the Count of Monte Cristo. None of these diagnoses takes into account the unusual talents that many of our patients develop or the creative energies they have mustered to survive. — Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

How do you know, and I mean really know, when you're in love with someone?"
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"It all feels like a dream," he says.
"A dream," I repeat. Ain't he right. — Tarryn Fisher

It is in the giving up of self that human beings can find the most ecstatic and lasting, solid, durable joy of life. And it is death that provides life with all its meaning. This "secret" is the central wisdom of religion. The process of giving up the self (which is — M. Scott Peck

Alex leaned over to Samheed. "If we get an hour's worth of music lessons, I think my head might explode." "In that case, bring on the music," Samheed muttered. Alex — Lisa McMann

Without sin, the universe is a Solemn Game: and there is no good game without rules. — C.S. Lewis

Every second the other person is doing the talking, you're winning. — Julian Moore

Television is a prisoner of dialogue and steady-cam. People walk down a hall, and the camera follows them around a corner. — David Chase

The best trees produce the sweetest fruits. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Your results are an expression of your level of awareness — Bob Proctor

I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement. — Virginia Woolf

Within-group conflict is always personal and emotional - even if it begins with impersonal issues. — Kenneth Kaye

When folk have set before them a true purpose and then pursue it unmoved with bravery and courage, when they withstand with a strong heart every trial which Heaven sends upon them, then one day at the last Almighty Providence will yet grant them the fruits of their struggle and of their sacrifices. For God has never abandoned any man upon this earth unless he has first abandoned himself. — Adolf Hitler