Wythenshawe Hospital Quotes & Sayings

If there's one lesson that I've been taught it is that when it comes to the bad, everyone wants to be a drop in the ocean. Insignificant and without fault. They want to be a drop instead of the straw that breaks the camel's back. — Kay Whitley

The attempt to be an ideal parent, that is, to behave correctly toward the child, to raise her correctly, not to give to little ortoo much, is in essence an attempt to be the ideal child
well behaved and dutiful
of one's own parents. But as a result of these efforts the needs of the child go unnoticed. I cannot listen to my child with empathy if I am inwardly preoccupied with being a good mother; I cannot be open to what she is telling me. — Alice Miller

The best thing for the inside of a man, is the outside of a horse. — R. F. Delderfield

The Word Lady: Most Often Used to Describe Someone You Wouldn't Want to Talk to for Even Five Minutes. — Fran Lebowitz

The source of so much of my anxiety in life and the tensions in my relationship is my anxiety about my kid. It's all very abstract and unfounded and ungrounded. — Lisa Cholodenko

Still, through a complex combination of optimism and longing and bravado, you would round it up. While a cruder name for this process is lying , one could make a case that delusion is a variant of generosity. After all, you practiced rounding up on Kevin from the day he was born.

Me, I'm a stickler. I prefer my photographs in focus. At the risk of tautology, I like people only as much as I like them. I lead an emotional life of such arithmetic precision, carried to two or three digits after the decimal, that I am even willing to allow for degrees of agreeableness in my own son. In other words, Franklin: I leave the $17. — Lionel Shriver

The most vexing problem Israel faces is its relations with its neighbors. From the inception of the state until today, Israelis have felt besieged, surrounded by enemies who want to make them disappear. — Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

It is beautiful to wish to add another's light to your own. — Plato

I don't really want to do the Hollywood thing. I think you ought to try to say something with your movies. — Ellen Page

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma. — Joseph Joubert

I was never forced to go to church, and there is a lot of beauty in Christianity that I take in my life as a gift, and there is a lot of beauty in other religions. I'm kind of a spiritual mutt. — Emily Saliers

I breathed him in and tasted him, his lips stronger than I'd expected. He could spout scripture and I could spout poetry, but none could come close to the eloquence made manifest in the kiss. — Vee Hoffman

The Christian life becomes impossible. That is, it becomes supernatural. — John Piper

The threads can always be traced back to some earlier tale, and to the tales that preceded that: — Anonymous

No man is a failure who is enjoying life. — William Feather