Piovano Medical Center Quotes & Sayings

This isn't the kind of story where understanding makes you smart, or not understanding makes you dumb. — CLAMP

I have no routines or personal history. One day I found out that they were no longer necessary for me and, like drinking, I dropped them. One must have the desire to drop them and then one must proceed harmoniously to chop them off, little by little. If you have no personal history, no explanations are needed; nobody is angry or disillusioned with your acts. And above all no one pins you down with their thoughts. It is best to erase all personal history because that makes us free from the encumbering thoughts of other people. I have, little by little, created a fog around me and my life. And now nobody knows for sure who I am or what I do. Not even I. How can I know who I am, when I am all this? — Carlos Castaneda

The predominance of moral factors in all military decisions. On them constantly turns the issue of war and battle. In the history of war they form the more constant factors, changing only in degree, whereas the physical factors are different in almost every war and every military situation. — B.H. Liddell Hart

Writing about memories is an elusive process. It often begins with a good intention: to convey the truth. What happens in reality is that we only write down what passes through the censors' eyes. The censors here are the ambient time and space, social and political conditions, and the psychological changers the writer herself. What one writes now is certainly not what actually happened. It is but a vague indicator of what might have happened, a mixture of illusive and contracted images, a dream, or an act conditioned by either a denial or a desire to see past events shaped by what is yearned for in the present. p. 153 — Haifa Zangana

So this has nothing to do with my telling you I was taking Emily out here today?" she asked skeptically. "Now, that would be too easy, wouldn't it?" "Everything is easy for you, Sawyer." "Not everything. — Sarah Addison Allen

A lot of times, L.A. is desaturated, and cement and freeways, and downtown. — Dan Gilroy

I was always able to throw-it's not something I consciously worked on. — Marc Bulger