Mary Whiton Calkins Quotes & Sayings

For years, whenever I'd been travelling and came back to Copenhagen, I'd think: 'People are so stylish.' And it's not any one class. It's everyday life. — Susanne Bier

I swear ... to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture. — Hippocrates

It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt. — Francis Bacon

Seeing no resolution to my existential recognition of loss, I decide to eat lunch. — Chuck Klosterman

Mirages enchant us up to the very moment we die of thirst. — Marty Rubin

I always wanted to play baseball and join the circus. Now I have both. — Graig Nettles

What the public wants is called 'politically unrealistic.' Translated into English, that means power and privilege are opposed to it. — Noam Chomsky

You see it is important to understand how damaged people don't always know how to say yes, or to choose the big thing, even when it is right in front of them. It's a shame we carry. The shame of wanting something good. The shame of not believing we deserve to stand in the same room in the same way as all those we admire. Big red A's on our chests. — Lidia Yuknavitch

Alcohol's a depressant, it will let me down later. — Margaret Atwood

If you expect honesty, be honest. If you expect forgiveness, forgive. If you expect a whole person, you have to be a whole person. — Kristen Crockett

Some time in the night I got up, tiptoed to my window, and looked out at my doghouse. It looked so lonely and empty sitting there in the moonlight. I could see that the door was slightly ajar. I thought of the many times I had lain in my bed and listened to the squeaking of the door as my dogs went in and out. I didn't know I was crying until I felt the tears roll down my cheeks. — Wilson Rawls

I find 'Fatal Attraction' really romantic. I really like the seduction. Almost every time I see it, I'm surprised when it goes dark. I know that's the claim to fame, but I key into how genuinely romantic it is. — Shane Carruth

But between sets I'd sneak over to the black places to hear blues musicians. It got to the point where I was making my living at white clubs and having my fun at the other places. — Stevie Ray Vaughan