History Today Mary Whitehouse Quotes & Sayings

The mob rushes in where individuals fear to tread. — B.F. Skinner

This time once again it has been my chief aim to make no sacrifice to an appearance of being simple, complete or rounded off, not to disguise problems and not to deny the existence of gaps and uncertainties. In no other scientific field would it be necessary to boast of such modest intentions. They are universally regarded as self-evident; the public expects nothing else. No reader of an account of astronomy will feel disappointed and contemptuous of the science if he is shown the frontiers at which our knowledge of the universe melts into haziness. Only in psychology is it otherwise. There mankind's constitutional unfitness for scientific research comes fully into the open. What people seem to demand of psychology is not progress in knowledge, but satisfactions of some other sort; every unsolved problem, every admitted uncertainty is made into a reproach against it.
Whoever cares for the science of mental life must accept these injustices along with it. — Sigmund Freud

If it weren't my life, I wouldn't have believed it. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Feathers fell from the sky. Like black snow, they drifted onto an old city called Bath. — Stefan Bachmann

The highest of characters is his who is as ready to pardon the moral errors of mankind as if he were every day guilty of them himself; and as cautious of committing a fault as if he never forgave one. — Pliny The Younger

I love the fact that in the cancer universe you have a lot of money going towards research, but this is about cancer support. It allows people to receive information to facilitate their healing. It's a revelation and just phenomenal. — Billy Zane

Much later, Alice would wonder what might have happened if she had gone to bed when she was supposed to. — Django Wexler

You don't just become something in life. You evolve and grow; otherwise you get bored and remain stagnant. — Anthea Syrokou

Sex is like crying, it does look pretty if you really do it — Laurell K. Hamilton

A Yea might turn in to a Nae and vice versa if a sufficient quantity of wordage was applied. In other talk you argument out until you get the answer you want — Leonard Wibberley

Sure," said my sister. "I mean you can't go to hell, because you don't die. You can be as evil as you want. I think I would probably kill off most men." "Most?" "I would leave the pretty ones." "Oh, brother," I said. — J.R. Rain

Psychological flexibility is the ability to adapt to a situation with awareness, openness, and focus and to take effective action, guided by your values. — Russ Harris

Let us be the ancestors our descendants will thank. — Winona LaDuke

Even though they won't finish in the top four this season, they will still be of the contenders next season. — Alan Hansen

Don't wait for a reason to feel the joy. Life is for joy. — Debasish Mridha