Porphyria Quotes & Sayings

Fathers who compete hard with their kids are monstrous. The father, for a throw-away victory, is sacrificing the very heart of hischild's sense of being good enough. He may believe he is making his son tough, as he was made tough by a similarly contending father, but he is only making his child desperate and mean like himself. Fathers must let their sons (and daughters) have their victories. — Frank Pittman

When people criticize the free market, they are usually complaining about what happens when you intervene in the free market. — James Cook

The difference between the tolerant and the extremist was not so great. Looking into the Other, we can always find something of ourselves within. — Manil Suri

Lounging on his side, he tipped his head back. "So, you slept like a little baby Apollyon last night. I wonder why."

I glared at him. Seth had stayed the night again. "I loathe you."

He chuckled. "You reluctantly like me."

"Whatever. So are you going to tell me why you're always with Lucian? Is he a part of your little fan club now?"

"My fans love to hear my war stories." He jumped to his feet, swinging at me. "They're obsessed with me. What can I say? I'm that cool. And I'm not always with Lucian. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

The members of the functional and socially mobilized under class must, in some very real way, be seen as the architects of their own fate. If not, they could be, however marginally, on the conscience of the comfortable. There could be a disturbing feeling, however fleeting, of unease, even guilt. — John Kenneth Galbraith

You go on with your life, because life goes on," says Isabel. "You see this in anyone who has survived a traumatic situation. My own daughter died, for example." Her only daughter, Paula Frias, died of porphyria in 1992 at the age of twenty-seven. "At first you think you can't live with this," says the author, who just turned sixty-five. "It's just too much. Then life begins to take over. One morning you wake up and you want to eat chocolate. Or walk in the woods. Or open a bottle of wine. You get back up on your feet." "When you can, right?" "You have no choice!" Isabel insists. "You cannot let the bullies keep you on the floor! I have been on my knees a thousand times, and I always get up. — Mark Matousek

Furthermore, [Sigmund Freud] had a racial fixation on sex, a fixation sufficiently pronounced to cause it to infect contagiously all modern European stock. — L. Ron Hubbard

I went into television because I hated it so, and I thought there's some way of using this fabulous instrument to nurture those who would watch and listen, — Fred Rogers

In cases of porphyria, a minor disease, the patient excretes large quantities of porphyrins. — Hans Fischer

Progress is impossible without the ability to admit mistakes. — Masaaki Imai

I need to put up with two or three caterpillars if I want to get to know the butterflies. Apparently they're very beautiful. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

The rain set early in tonight, The sullen wind was soon awake, It tore the elm-tops down for spite, And did its best to vex the lake: I listened with heart fit to break. When glided in Porphyria; straight She shut the cold out and the storm, And kneeled and made the cheerless grate Blaze up and all the cottage warm; — Robert Browning

I remember him as something left behind upon the road of life - as something I have passed, rather than have actually been - and almost think of him as of someone else. — Charles Dickens

Real life ... Witches: Wiccan practitioners. Werewolves: rare strain of rabies. Zombies: Prions/Plague. Vampires: Hemophilia/Porphyria — Solange Nicole

Time is not a movement in space. Space is a movement in time. — Frederick Lenz

Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth. — D.H. Lawrence

The only problem facing you in life is the belief in separation from your Source. Solve that one and all the other ones will vanish. — John Randolph Price