P211 Quotes & Sayings

Studies of cancer patients show that attitudes of mind have very little effect on clinical outcome. We may say we are fighting cancer, but cancer is merely fighting us; we may think we have beaten it, when it has only gone away to regroup. It is all just the universe doing its stuff, and we are the stuff it is being done to. And so, perhaps, with grief. We imagine we have battled against it, been purposeful, overcome sorrow, scrubbed the rust from our soul, when all that has happened is that grief has moved elsewhere, shifted its interest. — Julian Barnes

I always remember liking school. — Damon Lindelof

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it. — Henry A. Kissinger

Profit is not the proper end and aim of management - it is what makes all of the proper ends and aims possible — David Packard

I think a way to behave is to think not in terms of representative government, not in terms of voting, not in terms of electoral politics, but thinking in terms of organizing social movements, organizing in the work place, organizing in the neighborhood, organizing collectives that can become strong enough to eventually take over - first to become strong enough to resist what has been done to them by authority, and second, later, to become strong enough to actually take over the institutions. — Howard Zinn

And real happiness will come, not in gratifying our desires or in gaining transient pleasures, but in accomplishing God's will for us: even as we pray every day: "Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven — Bernard Of Clairvaux

We get very set in our ways and it's sometimes hard to look beyond what else is out there. — Emilio Estevez

All life is a struggle for existence. Why should it cease to be a struggle if it spreads among the stars? — Ken MacLeod

One of the first keys to success, he considered, was to recognize the difference between problems you could do something about and problems you could do nothing about. — Diane Setterfield

Mothers have need of sharp eyes and discreet tongues
when they have girls to manage — Louisa May Alcott

He pinpointed Helen immediately, despite so many women - all dressed in somber mourning attire - against a background of pitch dark. He offered her a weak smile, somewhere between, 'I didn't mean to look at you' and 'I couldn't help but look at you. — Becca St. John

It is always sad to write about prejudice, but sometimes when we see it being played out in the lives of fictional characters, we can recognize it in our own lives. — Katherine Paterson

It is not who begets us, that matters, but where fate places us. — D.H. Lawrence

To place your trust in visible things is to live in despair. — Thomas Merton

The very freedom which the sinner supposedly exercises in his self-indulgence is only another proof that he is ruled by the tyrant. — Fulton J. Sheen

I always say the first sign of a good idea is a lot of people not believing in it. I can tell you this right now, if you have an idea that makes complete logical sense and people don't believe in it, then you probably have a brilliant idea. — Steve Stoute