Maximx Quotes & Sayings

To hold traumatic reality in consciousness requires a social context that affirms and protects the victim and that joins the victim and witness in a common alliance. For the individual victim, this social context is created by relationships with friends, lovers, and family. For the larger society, the social context is created by political movements that give voice to the disempowered. — Judith Lewis Herman

The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny. — Blaise Pascal

It is quite possible that, even if you set the most relevant, realistic goals, you may not achieve them in the way or the time you wanted to. Life may throw something unexpected in your path, which stops you from achieving what you want, when you want. This is not failure. Feeling like you have failed is bound to lead to low mood, and can often come about if things haven't quite gone according to plan. However, the best thing to do is to draw a mental line under the experience, learn from what has happened and try again. As long as you are still trying, you are working towards your long-term aims; and as long as you are doing that, you are never truly failing. — Anna Barnes

The primary reason we do too much is that we have never taken the time to discover that portion of what we do that makes the biggest difference. — Andy Stanley

Those wolves were crueler even than the Japanese devils. They knew that all they had to do was rip open the bellies and let the horses die under their own hooves. I've never seen anything more sinister, more savage in my life. Those wolves embody the spirit of the Japanese samurai. Suicidal attacks don't faze them, and that makes Mongol wolves more fearful than any others. I won't rest till I kill every last one of them! — Jiang Rong

I've only been an asshole to assholes! — Harlan Ellison

When looking at her I imagine my childhood and I live it all over again. Having children is getting to live two lives. — Christie Watson

[Kant] was like many people: in intellectual matters he was skeptical, but in moral matters he believed imjplicitly in the maximx that he had imbibed at his mother's knee. — Bertrand Russell

Mistletoe, the same plant you kiss under at holiday time, may be an effective aid against certain types of cancer. — Chris Kilham

Today, the first & last of every Tree/ Speaks to humankind. Come to me, here beside the River. — Maya Angelou

Where I teach students in drama school, there's a course called Dramatics. In this course, all students must put on a play. However, acting majors are not supposed to act. They can write the play, for example, and the writers may work on stage art. Likewise, stage art majors may become actors, and in this way you put on a show. — Kim Young-ha

I have a doggy, a Japanese Akita, who I live to play with. — Corey Haim

Why is it that the destruction of something created by humans is called vandalism, yet the destruction of something created by God is called development? — Edward Abbey