Knifedog Quotes & Sayings

The second greatest pleasure after love is talking about it. — Louise Labe

Language always occurs in a context - you can speak Elizabethan words, but to speak the language you have to put on the mindset ... — John Geddes

Although failure is a great teacher, we cannot afford the time to learn from our failures. Human societies cannot be subjected to such a process. — Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

When the range and depth of the suffering of others and what we do to one another are no longer bothers us, nor moves us to remedy the situation and stop the pain, then we have lost a part of our own humanity, our own soul. — Megan McKenna

Keep off their radar of those likely to exhibit unacceptable behaviour upon others. — Steven Redhead

Some of the madmen are really fun to be with. I soon learnt to relate to them. I soon became one of them. I ended up the maddest of the mad. There is no madder than myself! Please believe it. — Stephen Richards

SHAME-BASED FAMILIES AND MULTIGENERATIONAL ILLNESS One of the devastating aspects of toxic shame is that it is multigenerational. The secret and hidden aspects of toxic shame form the wellsprings of its multigenerational life. Since it is kept hidden, it cannot be worked out. Families are as sick as their toxic shame secrets. — John Bradshaw

I don't regard my career as something so precious that it comes before my convictions. — Orson Welles

Mary obtains salvation for all who have recourse to her. Oh! If all sinners had recourse to Mary, who would ever be lost? ... He who is protected by her will be saved; he who is not will be lost. — Alphonsus Liguori

Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only. — Plautus

Spoons are excellent. Sort of like forks, only not as stabby. — Neil Gaiman

Well, fans always root for the underdog. — Maria Sharapova

There still remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum of servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking. — Christopher Hitchens

She felt frightened only for a second. For one thing, the world beneath her was so very far away that it seemed to have nothing to do with her. — C.S. Lewis

All want power, but few will wait to gain it for themselves. — Swami Vivekananda