Uttley Crossgates Quotes & Sayings

The hardcore drug addicts that I treat, are, without exception, people who have had extraordinarily difficult lives. The commonality is childhood abuse. These people all enter life under extremely adverse circumstances. Not only did they not get what they need for healthy development; they actually got negative circumstances of neglect. I don't have a single female patient in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver who wasn't sexually abused, for example, as were many of the men, or abused, neglected and abandoned serially, over and over again. That's what sets up the brain biology of addiction. In other words, the addiction is related both psychologically, in terms of emotional pain relief, and neurobiological development to early adversity. — Gabor Mate

It's better to prepare than to repair. — John C. Maxwell

Being in Christ, it is safe to forget the past; it is possible to be sure of the future; it is possible to be diligent in the present. — Alexander MacLaren

The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it. — Christian Nestell Bovee

one may be partially owned by another or others by having to sell one's labor or talents to somebody with the means to buy them. In — Iain M. Banks

Should it concern us that the bible never calls us to ask Jesus into our hearts. Should it concern us that the bible never mentions such a superstitious sinners prayer and yet that is exactly what we have sold to so many as salvation. — David Platt

The prisoners were handcuffed together, and it was these hands that caught Martha's attention: the working hands, clasped together by broad and gleaming steel, held carefully at waist level, steady against the natural movement of swinging arms - the tender dark flesh cautious against the bite of the metal. These people were being taken to the magistrate for being caught at night after curfew, or forgetting to carry one of the passes which were obligatory, or - but there were a dozen reasons, each as flimsy. — Doris Lessing

There's nothing creepier than having a psychotic Apollyon caged in the basement. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Parts of you die with every decision you have to make. It becomes about making decisions between bad decisions and worse decisions. — Elizabeth Rodriguez

A lot of things in life seem impossible until it's done. Don't be afraid to attempt the impossible. — Rita Zahara

I have a lot of mice, I have a kitten named 'Girr,' I have an iguana named 'Invader Zim,' I have some fish, a whole buncha water snails, and a tarantula named 'Sweet Pea.' — Matthew Underwood

I'm a big believer in 'pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start again.' — Imelda May

... Be there people either Conservatives or Socialists, Yellows or Reds, the most important thing is - and this is the point I wish particularly to stress - that all of them are right in the plain and moral sense of the word... I ask whether it is not possible to see in the present social conflict of the world an analogous struggle between two, three, five equally serious verities and equally generous idealisms? I think it is possible, and this is the most dramatic element in modern civilization, that a human truth is opposed to another truth no less human, ideal against ideal, positive words against words no less positive, instead of the struggle being, as we are so often told it is, one between noble truth and vile selfish error. — Karel Capek

Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

This battle for global talent is so important. — Jerry Moran