King John Shakespeare Traitor Quotes & Sayings

I very rarely read the responses to my Salon pieces, because (as you may have noticed) the trolls can be SO evil. So violent in their hostility to me and my work. OK, wait, wait, wait. That's a lie. I do read the responses
and get mesmerized, like cobra hypnosis. But I laugh (mostly) at the trolls, and think about what tiny little weenies they must have. (They seem to be mostly men.) And then ALL these smart, funny people leap to my defense, which is medicine, and fills me with love and thankfulness. — Anne Lamott

The U.S. has historically been the world's largest contributor to climate change. — Michael Franti

I want Scott to look at me the way Patch looks at you. — Becca Fitzpatrick

However, if you do not believe your clients, they may sense your doubt and never fully trust you. As Bruce Goderez (1986), director of a PTSD inpatient unit says, "It is important for the clinician and counselor to be willing to be made a fool." In other words, it is better that you believe a client who is lying or distorting the truth than to disbelieve a hurting trauma survivor who may never seek help again if your attitude is one of disbelief or disdain. Even if that client were to continue in therapy, they would never fully trust you. — Aphrodite Matsakis

Cancer didn't change me at all. I know lots of people talk about the life revelation. I didn't have that. — Randy Pausch

Duplicity thy name is woman! — Wilbur Smith

I'd like to explode a few myths about what we call classical music. It's not high art for the titillation of a chosen few. — Charles Hazlewood

I'm from the middle of nowhere in Somerset, and if I have too much stimulus or chaos, then I tend to not be as creative. — Alice Temperley

China has not lived up to any other trade agreements over the last decade ... They don't have any compliance or enforcement. — David Bonior

Do not marvel brothers if the world hates you, the world rejected and rebelled against God and His truth. — Auliq Ice

So I returned to the northern strip of Miami Beach, the valley just far enough north to muffle the piercing South Beach celebratory voices, and just far enough south to dull the glittering lights of the Sunny Isles high rises, and I went to sleep in the city where exhausted people lived exhausted lives, but never stopped once to even ponder sleep--to even dream sleep an option, in the country that breeds ghosts, where the people can't understand why everything real always passes right through their arms. There was so much life out there for all of us, but so few would ever touch it. God, how I wanted to feel. — Jonathan LaPoma

All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

I could not find any evidence that her circumstances had harmed Jane Austen's work in the slightest. That, perhaps, was the chief miracle about it. Here was a woman about the year 1800 writing without hate, without bitterness, without fear, without protest, without preaching. Her mind consumed all impediments. — Harold Bloom