Menninger Foundation Quotes & Sayings

She had a great big heart
but very little grace.
Every time she fell in love
she landed on her face. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

As a graduate student, I wrote a long paper connecting the dots between mathematical models of learning and language development in children. It was published in a major journal. — Steven Pinker

Stop playing verbal games with me, madam, or I shall go out into that ballroom, find your mother, and bring her here — Gail Carriger

After two hours it stopped raining and in the same moment the spell broke, which Peroquet and the Admiral and Captain Jumeau knew by a curious twist of their senses, as if they had tasted a string quartet, or been, for a moment, deafened by the sight of colour blue. — Susanna Clarke

The leaders of the world's largest economies agreed during the November 2008 G20 summit not to create barriers hindering global trade and capital flows. Russia shares these principles. — Vladimir Putin

Once I admitted the arguments of necessity and force majeure put forward by the less eminent, I couldn't reject those of the eminent. To which they retorted that the surest way of playing the game of the red robes was to leave to them the monopoly of the death penalty. My reply to this was that if you gave in once, there was no reason for not continuing to give in. It seems to me that history has borne me out; today there's a sort of competition who will kill the most. They're all mad over murder and they couldn't stop killing men even if they wanted to. — Albert Camus

The object is not to make the tree look like a bonsai, but to make the bonsai look like a tree. — John Naka

Give people a second chance, but not a third. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

The dance is the mother of the arts, The dance breaks down the distinction of body & soul. — Curt Sachs

How is it possible to reconcile the sense that the universe in which we have been cast has a significance when we are so aware of the jumbled trivia of day-to-day living? How is — Leo Tolstoy

On December 17, 1984, I had surgery to remove two inches of my left lung due to pneumonia. After two hours of surgery the doctors told my mother I had AIDS. — Ryan White

She'd also said more than once that I wasn't half as clever as I thought I was. Considering what I thought of myself, that still made me pretty damn clever. — Rob Thurman