Steve Schapiro Quotes & Sayings

Someone can intentionally fake blindness for some secondary gain (malingering)
a prisoner who says he can't see in order to try to avoid going directly to jail. It is not difficult to figure out when patients say they are blind but can actually see. We have a simple test that lets us determine whether the eyes are functioning. Using a rotating striped drum, we test for something called optokinetic nystagmus. as the drum spins, normal eyes will be seen moving back and forth.
If a striped rotating drum is not available, you can always use a picture of J. Lo's rear. Move it back and forth, and any normal eyes will follow. — Mark Leyner

Power is also like love, easier to experience than to define or measure, but no less real for that. — Joseph S. Nye Jr.

There still shines the most important nuance by virtue of which the noble felt themselves to be men of a higher rank. They designate themselves simply by their superiority in power (as "the powerful," "the masters," "the commanders") or by the most clearly visible signs of this superiority, for example, as "the rich," "the possessors" (this is the meaning of 'Arya,' and of corresponding words in Iranian and Slavic). — Friedrich Nietzsche

You didn't hear the angels singing. It was brought down to Mother Earth, which is where it should be. And that led me to a lot of other reading. — Harvey Keitel

When in doubt and in need of information, find a snitch and squeeze him. — Ilona Andrews

I also work out because I have scoliosis. I have to maintain certain strength in my core. — Joan Smalls

We must do a better job of encouraging lifelong curiosity. — John Medina

A spiritual process is not a divorce from life. It is an irrevocable love affair with life. — Jaggi Vasudev

Memories are quiet things. — Corey Ann Haydu

Iran wants the money. And I don't believe they want it for roads or hospitals or schools, I believe they want it for more terror. — John Barrasso

Why be broken when you can be gold? — Sarah Rees Brennan

Time stretches and calms, but still we reach, for we belonged then. We want to know. Sometimes that knowledge is painful, or inconvenient, or even damning. But it is essential. It exposes us for what we have been, and can be. — Mark Mustian