Prokopiou Medical Quotes & Sayings

The leaders use their power to crush people's natural desire to think for themselves. It's foot binding for the brain. — Haruki Murakami

And yet there's nothing to understand. The problem is that children believe what adults say and, once they're adults themselves, they exact their revenge by deceiving their own children. "Life has meaning and we grown-ups know what it is" is the universal lie that everyone is supposed to believe. Once you become an adult and you realize that's not true, it's too late. The mystery remains intact, but all your available energy has long ago been wasted on stupid things. All that's left is to anesthetize yourself by trying to hide the fact that you can't find any meaning in your life, ... — Muriel Barbery

I'm looking for you
into that silver
spoon where I taste my reflection
to feel the touch of your untouchables
- from the poem Looking For You — Munia Khan

If you no longer live,
if you my beloved, my love,
if you have died,
all the leaves will fall in my breast,
it will rain in my soul night and day,
the snow will burn my heart,
I shall walk with frost and fire and death
and snow,
my feet will want to walk to where you
are sleeping, but
I shall live — Pablo Neruda

-The very absence of the freedom to criticise against your own or any other government is all the more a reason to loudly shout-out for democracy! If that is wrong, Drew boldly went on, -then I would rather be wrong then to be numbered among the majority of the so-called righteous people whose only mandate seems to be controlling people. If a government is against its people expressing themselves, then that government is obviously hiding something criminal from its people and the world, and it is therefore afraid of being exposed and losing whatever power it has. — Andrew James Pritchard

Lilith chuckled, fondly remembering the bitter and heated arguments when the other princes had first confronted Orcus. Those had been the days! She had to admit, completely obliterating one's enemy was not as satisfying as one might think. It rather left a void in one's daily life. Her current enemies were so much less interesting. — J.L. Langland

'Empire of Self' is a loving portrait of a very difficult man. Jay Parini, himself a gifted novelist, poet and biographer, has gone very deep into the 'black energy' of Gore Vidal's relentless narcissism and megalomania. Parini envisions an epic battle between Vidal's angelic and demonic sides, yet there's very little of the angel in Vidal. — Jerome Charyn

She knew that people generally behaved only as well as they had to. — Daisy Goodwin

Mags, I don't know how many more times I will have to say this, but here it goes. You're amazing, you deserve the best, and I want nothing more than to be whatever you need me to be. — Kristen Hope Mazzola

From my point of view, photography never got any better than it was in 1840. — Chuck Close

we don't learn to love our lives and then check a box when it's done. We learn to love our lives every day, one day at a time, forever. — Melanie Dale

You must market your marketing. — Jay Baer

For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth. — Hunter S. Thompson

I don't shop online. I'm always scared to put my credit card on the Internet! — Kristin Cavallari

I wanted to hate him because he was beautiful in a way I would never be. — Amy Harmon