Clotting Mechanism Quotes

#1. A borderline suffers a kind of emotional hemophilia; [s]he lacks the clotting mechanism needed to moderate [her] spurts of feeling. Stimulate a passion, and the borderline emotionally bleeds to death.

Jerold Kreisman, Hal Straus

#2. You do not need to pay attention to those voices within you that create pain, or make you feel less competent, smart or able.

Sanaya Roman

#3. To be able to lead others, a man must be willing to go forward alone.

Harry S. Truman

#4. Never think oldish thoughts. It's oldish thoughts that make a person old.

James Farley

#5. Question: How much do you have to invest in the future before you've spent it and no longer have one?

Mark Steyn

#6. People who'd led dull and blameless lives did not give thanks for second chances.

Kate Morton

#7. No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical.

Michael Ende

#8. The silence became uneasy. It was broken by the elderly princess saying, The most distressing thing about being up here above the clouds is that there is no weather to make conversation out of.

Diana Wynne Jones

#9. Like flowers and plants, we too need ground under our feet, warmth and sunshine and food for our spirit, protective boundaries, tending and care, freedom to grow unencumbered and without limitation, and complete support from the Universe to become our greatest possible self.

Sonia Choquette

#10. With Guard and Reserve units, you can end up with a lot of people from one part of the country dying in one day, and that gets people's attention.

Lawrence Korb

#11. Here's my advice: The first step to becoming a changemaker (the only secure job going forward) is to give oneself permission, i.e. to ignore - politely, of course - all those who say 'Don't do it

Bill Drayton

#12. I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it.

Bianca Jagger

#13. Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.

Sam Worthington