Hrach Keshishyan Quotes & Sayings

Are Child Molesters Really Just Victims Themselves?
"All victims are offenders," one professional challenged me at a conference, "and all offenders are victims. How does your work address that?"
My work doesn't address that because I don't believe there's any evidence for that assertion. Obviously, not all victims are offenders, but it is also likely that most offenders weren't victims. The studies that find a high proportion of child molesters who were victims of child sexual abuse themselves are almost always based on self-report, and even there, study results differ dramatically. Studies show the number of child molesters who were themselves molested as children ranges from 22 percent in some studies to 82 percent in others.[101] — Anna C. Salter

Have an exit strategy. Just in case your current plan doesn't work, always know what your endgame is and where you're going next. — Robyn Carr

Yes, I laugh at all mankind, and the imposition that they dare to practice when they talk of hearts. I laugh at human passions and human cares, vice and virtue, religion and impiety; they are all the result of petty localities, and artificial situation. One physical want, one severe and abrupt lesson from the colorless and shriveled lip of necessity, is worth all the logic of the empty wretches who have presumed to prate it, from Zeno down to Burgersdicius. It silences in a second all the feeble sophistry of conventional life, and ascetical passion. — Charles Robert Maturin

To me, watercolor is a Western medium, so when I feel like I am using a Western manner I will use English to sign my name. — Liu Dan

He'll have to prove it to you. Every day, he'll have to prove he's worthy of
you. And if he doesn't, that's it. But I think he will. — David Levithan

God's principles of national transformation will give the opportunity to make positive changes in the country, overcoming crisis in politics, economy, social services and other spheres. — Sunday Adelaja

Be careful what you say, life and death truly are in your own words. — Tyler Perry

That silence intimidates puzzles me. Silence is to me normal, comfortable." Later he added, "I will admit to feeling a little contempt for those who can't keep quiet. — Michael Finkel

Why, Andrew, why would it irritate me? Do you think that being loved by you is something to be ashamed of? I don't. — Andrew Ashling