Matousek Chiropractic Quotes & Sayings

You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation. It is that permanent contradiction between your ideas and desires and all the dead formalities and vain pretenses of your civilization which makes you sad, troubled and unbalanced. In that intolerable conflict you lose all joy of life and all feeling of personality, because at every moment they suppress and restrain and check the free play of your powers. That'€s the poisoned and mortal wound of the civilized world. — Octave Mirbeau

I want to ask him about these things, but whenever I imagine doing so, I freeze up. I have always been better at writing things than saying them. — Claire Legrand

From within he produced a crumpled piece of paper, and old-fashioned brass key, a peg of wood with a ball of string attached to it, and three rusty old disks of metal. — Arthur Conan Doyle

I'm often very relaxed when I'm on the wire. There may be some tears because this is a dream of mine. — Nik Wallenda

Lafayette took umbrage - just gobs and gobs of umbrage - at the patriots' vilification of his countrymen for leaving Newport. — Sarah Vowell

One of the things that bothers me most is the growing belief in the country that security is more important than freedom. It ain't. — Lyn Nofziger

This is the Tree of Forgetfulness. All the headmen here plant one of these trees in the village. They say ancestors stay inside it. If there is some sickness or if you are troubled by spirits, then you sit under the Tree of Forgetfulness and your ancestors will assist you with whatever is wrong'. — Alexandra Fuller

The story of every great Christian achievement is the history of answered prayer. — Edward McKendree Bounds

Sometimes, in the face of an infinity of alternatives, a straightforward result is all the more remarkable for being so. — Christian Rudder

Even just a few spices or ethnic condiments that you can keep in your pantry can turn your mundane dishes into a culinary masterpiece. — Marcus Samuelsson

Cicero said loud-bawling orators were driven by their weakness to noise, as lame men to take horse. — Plutarch

Yes, he scorned his family's decadent ways, but perhaps that wasn't so much about the money per se, but rather the wastefulness of it; the lack of energy and drive it represented, as if the Ransomes were - like that postmodern throng of the famous-for-being-famous set - some odd collection of spoiled Emperor-brats walking a red carpet without any discernible talent to clothe them. The things the Ransomes - and their once-large fortune - could have accomplished ... they could have changed the world, or at least impacted it in positive ways. — Roberta Pearce

Positive ones go on the wall, negative on the floor over there. He points to this heap of paper. It's important to get those down but they don't need to stick around after you do — Jennifer Niven

You know what the crummiest feeling you can have is? To hate the person you love the best in the world. — S.E. Hinton