Bassey Ikpi Quotes

#1. As the ACE study has shown, child abuse and neglect is the single most preventable cause of mental illness, the single most common cause of drug and alcohol abuse, and a significant contributor to leading causes of death such as diabetes, heart disease, cancer, stroke, and suicide.

Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

#2. The system of transportation is not coherent; it is not treated as integral. Roads compete with with railroads and airlines in chaotic fashion, and at immense cost to the nation.

Anthony Stafford Beer

#3. Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.

Nick Cave

#4. We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness.

Nhat Hanh

#5. Don't leave your relationships to chance. Pray for godly people to come into your life with whom you can connect. Don't force relationships to happen. Pray for them to happen. Then when they do, nurture them with prayer.

Stormie O'martian

#6. Of course, Minneapolis, we think, 'Oh well, it's cold there, lethally cold.' But the reality is you adapt to weather ... Humans are consummately adaptable creatures.

Dan Buettner

#7. The human mind was a devious organ, however, and it chiseled in stone that which would be best left unrecalled.

Raymond L. Atkins

#8. I hope we can be consummate artists as women or revolutionaries, or whatever women want to be, and also have love, not only for ourselves but from a partner.

Laura Dern

#9. Voting is one of the few things where boycotting in protest clearly makes the problem worse rather than better.

Jane Bowles

#10. If you've ever lost someone that you love, and I say 'love' and not 'loved' because even when they're gone, you still love them, you know that never goes away, but your life changes.

Rachel Spanswick

#11. I often have an argument with people. I say name me a classic song that's not sad in some kind of way. And even if you can, you'll have to search pretty far.

Danger Mouse

#12. Without a doubt, I was born to want to make cinema, but the kind of cinema I want to make is not like commercial movies, which I enjoy myself, but I wanted to be the kind of filmmaker who wrote original work, sort of like a novelist would who deals with who we are and our times or our relationships.

Francis Ford Coppola

#13. The brightest star in the night sky is the one closest to us; try to keep getting closer to your goal to shine even brighter.

Vinita Kinra

#14. The Brit's eyes had this pucker of awful witness.

Sam Lipsyte