Stokesberry Gastroenterologist Quotes & Sayings

Moon-letters are rune-letters, but you cannot see them. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Denmark first responded to the denunciatory cries of the eighteenth century against slavery and the slave-trade. In 1792, by royal order, this traffic was prohibited in the Danish possessions after 1802. — W.E.B. Du Bois

One does not simply ring Roland." Oh — Ilona Andrews

Believed merely a week earlier, ideas I had taken from one — Ta-Nehisi Coates

The very common error of young or unconfident cooks is to keep putting more of their own personal ideology into a plate until there's so much noise that you really can't even hear a tune. You can say more in an empty space than you can in a crowded one. — Mario Batali

Most of us happily disavow fairies, astrology and the Flying Spaghetti Monster, without first immersing ourselves in books of Pastafarian theology etc. — Richard Dawkins

What's true is immaterial. It's what people believe. Belief is the truth. — Michael Marshall

Nothing in all the world is so good as the knowledge and love of Christ, and no pleasure that can be enjoyed equal to the joy of serving Him with all one's heart. — Susan Warner

God grants us an uncommon life to the degree we surrender our common one. — Max Lucado

We are often less grieved at disappointments than at ourselves for having said much concerning the certainty of our expectations. — Norm MacDonald

My bounce-around life had taught me that dreams were dangerous things - they look solid in your mind, but you just try to reach for them. It's like gathering clouds. — Kirby Larson

The critical spirit rises up against itself and consumes its form. But instead of coming out of this process greater and purified, it devours itself in a kind of self-cannibalism and takes a morose pleasure in annihilating itself. Hyper-criticism eventuates in self-hatred, leaving behind it only ruins. A new dogma of demolition is born out of the rejection of dogmas. Thus we euro-americans are supposed to have only one obligation: endlessly atoning for what we have inflicted on other parts of humanity. How can we fail to see that this leads us to live off self-denunciation while taking a strange pride in being the worst? Self-denigration is all too clearly a form of indirect self-glorification. Evil can come only from us; other people are motivated by sympathy, good will, candor. This is the paternalism of the guilty conscience: seeing ourselves as the kings of infamy is still a way of staying on the crest of history. — Pascal Bruckner

I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book. — Benedict Cumberbatch

I usually find that the process of discovery is more interesting than the answers. — Dean Ornish

Have your cake and eat it ... there's no other reason to have a cake — Derren Brown