Wilhelm Ackermann Quotes & Sayings

My mother was all about unconditional love, and I don't think we give that to our patients a lot. At the end of the day, what they really need you to do is to look at them in the eye and say, 'I'm here for you. I'm going to make sure this works out.' — Mehmet Oz

Homes-the very idea of homeownership-evoke a strong emotional reaction in all of us. — Spencer Rascoff

One French ambassador, having witnessed the royal temper, confided, 'When I see her enraged against any person whatever, I wish myself in Calcutta, fearing her anger like death — Alison Weir

I am here because libraries and museums are singular and important institutions with unique contributions to make to our nation. But more importantly, I am here as an advocate for children and families, for healthy communities, for economic development, for scholars and researchers, for individuals who seek educational and informational resources throughout their lives. — Robert Cecil Martin

The fear of blindness created a moment's vacuum, serving as a relaxant for my exhausted and overheated brain. — Kenzaburo Oe

Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it. — Edgar Degas

Scoff if you wish, but there is something morally dangerous in this endless variety of amusements that our era claims to provide. Soon there will be no word for "contentment" in the English language, for we shall no longer feel content and thus have no need to describe it. — Kim Wright

I look at a stream and I see myself: a native South African, flowing irresistibly over hard obstacles until they become smooth and, one day, disappear - flowing from an origin that has been forgotten toward an end that will never be. — Miriam Makeba

A good writer knew when not to write. Anybody could type. Not that I was a good typist; also I couldn't spell and I didn't know grammar. But I knew when not to write. It was like fucking. You had to rest the godhead now and then. — Charles Bukowski

She would fill the world with it, with her light-her gift. She would light up the darkness, so brightly that all who were lost or wounded or broken would find their way to it, a beacon for those who still dwelled in that abyss. It would not take a monster to destroy a monster-but light, light to drive out the darkness.
She was not afraid. — Sarah J. Maas

People will selectively use "tradition" to justify anything. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Netanyahu is pressured easily, gets into a panic, and loses his senses ... to run a country like Israel a leader needs to have reason and judgment and nerves of steel, two traits he does not have. — Ariel Sharon

The integration of a headgear in professional boxing would do so much to make it safer for young men. They could go into the sport, make a lot of money and then come out and be good grandfathers. — George Foreman

Nessy had never believed that fear and respect were the same thing. Nor did she believe that the castle's manners were beyond redemption, for although her accursed home was mostly bad it was at least a little bit good. She hoped it would be good enough. — A. Lee Martinez

Ernest Hemingway talked about how writing is opening up a vein and bleeding onto the page. You prepared to do that? — Craig Lancaster