Woodham Mortimer Quotes & Sayings

The word comes from Latin roots com and templum, "with" and "temple. — Gerald G. May

Yelling louder does not help me understand you any better! Don't be afraid of me. Come closer to me. Bring me your gentle spirit. Speak more slowly. Enunciate more clearly. Again! Please, try again. S-l-o-w down. Be kind to me. Be a safe place for me. See that I am a wounded animal, not a stupid animal. I am vulnerable and confused. Whatever my age, whatever my credentials, reach for me. Respect me. I am in here. Come find me. — Jill Bolte Taylor

'Fargo' is a tragedy with a happy ending. So you need to have that tragic underpinning, that all of this could be avoidable, and that's what makes it tragic. It's about the use of violence, and the fact that the tension in anticipation of violence and the tension in anticipation of a laugh are sort of the same. — Noah Hawley

Two things I recognize, O Lord, in myself: Nature, which Thou hast made; Sin, which I have added. — Lancelot Andrewes

You feel like if they just read the manual first ... If we had a manual, that is. — Jeff VanderMeer

Call it peace or call it treason / call it love or call it reason / but I ain't marching anymore — Phil Ochs

One never anticipated the scale of it," Brissot whispered. "It was planned, yes, and people were paid - but not ten thousand people. Not even the Duke could pay ten thousand people. They acted for themselves." "And that upsets your plans?" "They have to be directed." Brissot shook his head. "We don't want anarchy. — Hilary Mantel

With all these occurrences of death facing me, I thought about issues of freedom. If government projects the idea that we, as people inhabiting this particular land mass, have freedom, then for the rest of our lives we will go out and find what appear to be the boundaries and smack against them like a heart against the rib cage. If we reveal boundaries in the course of our movements, then we will expose the inherent lie in the use of the word freedom. I want to keep breathing and moving until I arrive at a place where motion and strength and relief intersect. I don't know what's ahead of me in the course of my life and this civilization. I just don't feel I have reached the necessary things inside my history that would ease the pressure in my skull and in my future and in my present. It is exhausting, living in a population where people don't speak up if what they witness doesn't directly threaten them. — David Wojnarowicz

Truth I know not why I am so sad. It wearies me: you say it wearies you; But how I got it
came by it. — J. Sheridan Le Fanu

Serpentining is the perfect metaphor for how we spend enormous energy trying to dodge vulnerability when it would take far less effort to face it straight on. — Brene Brown

But it's a hell of a note when you can't even kill a dragon and feel lighthearted afterwards. — Robert A. Heinlein

attribute substitution amounts to substituting an easier question for a harder one. — Keith E. Stanovich