Halcombe 10 Quotes & Sayings

My job was to get a fair and open hearing to all ideas. — Dan Webster

We do not like to praise, and seldom praise anyone without self-interest. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Why do you smile all the time?" he said. "Because I am looking at you," she said — Tove Jansson

Imagine looking back from a vantage point of one thousand years in the future, retrospectively evaluating our current, "sophisticated" medical and scientific procedures. One might see today's physician waving laser beams over a patient's body as a primitive, archaic, and incomprehensible healing technique, just as from some perspectives a medicine woman waving eagle feathers, or a curandera holding a crucifix over a patient, is viewed by some as archaic. The similarities are striking and compelling. Future generations may lose touch with the major assumptions underpinning contemporary western medicine, just as many of us have now lost touch with the assumptions integral to older cultures that continue to practice the ancient healing ways. Forgetting the assumptions on which a procedure is based may make the procedure incomprehensible, but it does not make it invalid. — H. Henrietta Stockel

And this all causes her to wonder at the disparity between the silk dresses and the natural postures of the body, and to think: How far, HOW FAR, we are willing to go to pretend we are not of the body at all. — Anita Shreve

This is one of my favorite pick up strategies: I'm constantly giving women my keys. So far, none of them have shown up. Matter of time. And I've been robbed twice. — Aziz Ansari

Diplomas are ill-purposed. What should be celebrated is not the culmination of twelve years sitting in a school desk; what an 18-year-old should be recognized for is making it through young adulthood without getting herself killed. — Kari Martindale

To Lawren Harris art was almost a mission. He believed that a country which ignored the arts left no record of itself worth preserving. — A. Y. Jackson

There are some fantastic, brilliant alternative doctors out there. — Hayley Mills

Often we had no choice: we couldn't reform the whole world. And didn't somebody once say 'Politics is the art of the possible'?" "Quite true - which is why only second-rate minds go into it. Genius likes to challenge the impossible. — Arthur C. Clarke

Everywhere we go, people recognize me. — Marion Jones