Overcoming Intimidation Quotes & Sayings

Such a gift might be easily taken back again. — Veronica Franco

London clubland divides itself between the St James's refuge for toffs, and the Conquest of Cool, for the arts and media. — Peter York

Fear is the polio of the soul. Faith is the life based on unseen realities; it is the word become flesh. — Clarence Jordan

Christianity was created by some decadent and degenerated Romans as a tool of oppression, in the late Roman era, and it should be treated accordingly. It is like handcuffs to the mind and spirit and is nothing but destructive to mankind. In fact I don't really see Christianity as a religion. It is more like a spiritual plague, a mass psychosis, and it should first and foremost be treated as a problem to be solved by the medical science. Christianity is a diagnosis. It's like Islam and the other Asian religions, a HIV/AIDS of the spirit and mind. — Varg Vikernes

Every single thing you see on-screen came out of somebody's creativity. It doesn't exist. Nature didn't deliver it to us. Everything had to be dreamed. — Jeffrey Katzenberg

Nor dread nor hope attend
A dying animal;
A man awaits his end
Dreading and hoping all. — W.B.Yeats

I wear my heart on my sleeve. — Jourdan Dunn

Never has America lost a war ... But name, if you can, the last peace the United States won. Victory yes, but this country has never made a successful peace because peace requires exchanging ideas, concepts, thoughts, and recognizing the fact that two distinct systems of life can exist together without conflict. Consider how quickly America seems to be facing its allies of one war as new enemies. — Vine Deloria Jr.

The whole point of diaries is that other people find them and read what you've put. I did once take to writing my inner thoughts on the computer at the end of other things I was writing and ended up faxing four pages of hideous stuff to my accountant so I don't do that now. — Helen Fielding

I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something. — George Burns

Social environment in childhood affects achieved adult height, life chances, and ultimately mortality rates in adult life. ( ... ) ... social circumstances acting in childhood do have a persisting effect on adult disease rates, in addition to influences acting in adulthood. — Michael Marmot

Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see. — Margaret Atwood

We achieve some measure of adulthood when we recognize our parents as they really were, without sentimentalizing or mythologizing, but also without blaming them unfairly for our imperfections. Maturity entails a readiness, painful and wrenching though it may be, to look squarely into the long dark places, into the fearsome shadows. In this act of ancestral remembrance and acceptance may be found a light by which to see our children safely home. — Carl Sagan