Munksgaard International Publishers Quotes & Sayings

Going your own way shouldn't stop them from being happy with you."
"My brother and my sisters, they're clerks and parents and settled sort of people. I'm a puzzle, and sooner or later when you can't solve a puzzle, you have to think there's somthing wrong with it. Else there's something wrong with you."
"You ran away," she murmured.
He wasn't sure he liked the phrase, but nodded. "In a sense, I suppose, and as fast as I could. What's the point in looking back?"
But he was looking back, Keeley thought. Looking back over his shoulder, because he was still running away. — Nora Roberts

Before consulting the hotheads who present various military options such as a military invasion: remember, President Reagan, Rambo only exists in the movies. — Daniel Ortega

I use circumlocution too often, and instead of getting my point across, I tend to babble. — Genevieve Padalecki

Everybody is afraid of death for the simple reason that we have not tasted of life yet. The man who knows what life is, is never afraid of death; he welcomes death. Whenever death comes he hugs death, he embraces death, he welcomes death, he receives death as a guest. To the man who has not known what life is, death is an enemy; and to the man who knows what life is, death is the ultimate crescendo of life. — Rajneesh

So, please people, if you know someone with AD(H)D, don't try to change that about them. Don't take that one skill away, or make them feel ashamed to use it. Sometimes procrastination is all they have in their little superhero tool belt! — Stacey Turis

If you wish to survive, you have to win the battle. — B. Traven

I think it would be a good idea. — Mahatma Gandhi

Tell the people of all lands Let's get together the future is in our hands. United nations have to agree To say no to war, and yes to peace. — Country Joe McDonald

Perhaps his tragedy is that he is the only normal writer left on earth
and it is this that adds to his isolation and so too his so sense of guilt. — Malcolm Lowry

Humankind invented clocks to define eternity just as humankind invented religion to define God. — Suki Michelle

Fly fishermen are born honest, but they get over it. — Ed Zern

Being first to ask for help in a friendship takes courage and humility. — Afton Rorvik

Along with better training, pediatricians need better pay. Paradoxically, physicians involved in the primary care of our children - the doctors on the front lines who receive tens of thousands of visits every day from parents and their children - are among the lowest paid of all physicians in the United States. Something is wrong with our system when the doctor who performs a brief diagnostic procedure - some form of X-ray, for example, or a fifteen-minute operation - is paid many times more than the doctors making crucial decisions about our children's health. — Martin J. Blaser

There is no disgrace in an enemy suffering ill at an enemy's hand, when you hate mutually. — Aeschylus

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality. — George Santayana