Victim Services Quotes & Sayings

With the use of psychedelics, it was all based around the Tibetan Book of the Dead, using them to experience enlightenment. — Frederick Lenz

If God made all our faces, did he laugh when he made me?
Does he make the legs that cannot walk and eyes that cannot see?
Does he curl the hair upon my head 'til it rebels in wild defiance?
Does he close the ears of a deaf man to make him more reliant?
Is the way I look a coincidence or just a twist of fate?
If he made me this way, is it okay, to blame him for the things I hate?
For the flaws that seem to worsen every time I see a mirror,For the ugliness I see in me, for the loathing and the fear.
Does he sculpt us for his pleasure, for a reason I can't see?
If God makes all our faces, did he laugh when he made me? — Amy Harmon

I'm a terrible grocery shopper. I hardly ever do it. And if I do, there's never more than three things in the bag. — Seth Meyers

A super-sized fraud of this magnitude was bound to happen given the lack of regulation of these off-shore entities. — Harry Markopolos

I strongly believe every model has a right to set rules for how she is portrayed and for me these rules were clearly circumvented. — Coco Rocha

I find myself wanting to make music at the dining room table or in the bedroom - I'm kind of a mobile writer, so I sort of move around the house. But the attic is definitely where I can make the most noise. While everyone on the lower floors screams 'Earthquake!' But no! It's just my bass! — Meshell Ndegeocello

I feel at once the need to die and be reborn one thousand years ago. — Maggie Nelson

Now place yourself in the shoes of Clifford Runoalds, another African American victim of the Hearne drug bust.2 You returned home to Bryan, Texas, to attend the funeral of your eighteen-month-old daughter. Before the funeral services begin, the police show up and handcuff you. You beg the officers to let you take one last look at your daughter before she is buried. The police refuse. You are told by prosecutors that you are needed to testify against one of the defendants in a recent drug bust. You deny witnessing any drug transaction; you don't know what they are talking about. Because of your refusal to cooperate, you are indicted on felony charges. After a month of being held in jail, the charges against you are dropped. You are technically free, but as a result of your arrest and period of incarceration, you lose your job, your apartment, your furniture, and your car. Not to mention the chance to say good-bye to your baby girl. This is the War on Drugs. The — Michelle Alexander

I don't write with an outline. I don't often know what I'm going to do as I'm writing. And I do everything by feel and by instinct. — James Frey

Obedience is the burial of the will and the resurrection of humility. — John Climacus

Let the fellowship of Christ examine itself and see whether it has given any token of the love of Christ to the victim of the world's contumely and contempt, any token of that love of Christ which seeks to preserve, support and protect life. Otherwise however liturgically correct our services are, and however devout our prayer, however brave our testimony, they will profit us nothing, nay rather, they must needs testify against us that we have as a Church ceased to follow our Lord. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Wherever we are, it is our friends that make our world. — Henry Drummond

Life is simple, just be yourself. — E'yen A. Gardner

Effective leaders treat individuals differently but equally — John Adair

A summons home to the nature that nourishes the best human qualities of creativity, intelligence, connection, and compassion. — David W. Orr

The love, respect, and confidence of my children was the sweetest reward I could receive for my efforts to be the woman I would have them copy. — Louisa May Alcott