Institutionalization Example Quotes & Sayings

Even in my day there were five plaques at the top of the tomb, engraved with a written record of what each of these three groups had done, which prove, when the figures are added up, that the prostitutes made the greatest contribution. — Anonymous

If your business depends on you, you don't own a business - you have a job. And it's the worst job in the world because you're working for a lunatic! — Michael E. Gerber

Fear is instantly debilitating and love instantly empowering — Richard Gerber

He will choose you, disarm you with his words, and control you with his presence. He will delight you with his wit and his plans. He will show you a good time but you will always get the bill. He will smile and deceive you, and he will scare you with his eyes. And when he is through with you, and he will be through with you, he will desert you and take with him your innocence and your pride. You will be left much sadder but not a lot wiser, and for a long time you will wonder what happened and what you did wrong. And if another of his kind comes knocking on your door, will you open it?

-From an essay signed "A psychopath in prison — Robert D. Hare

I just try to do what I have to do and let the people out there do what they have to do, which is have fun, scream, yell and jump around. I try to do what I have to do, which is play baseball, and I can only play in that piece of area there, so that's what I try to do. — Pedro Martinez

These are the poems of a traveler and a lover who feels both the terror of time passing and the consolation of eternity. From such tension spring lovely poetic objects, ready for intelligent use. — Andrei Codrescu

It's probably indicative that I was destined for an academic career that I'm 6-5 and I lost the slam-dunk championship to somebody 5-8. I was a lot better at math. — Peter Blair Henry