Florence Blanchfield Quotes

#1. Chide a friend in private and praise him in public.

Solon

#2. If we are to believe the evidence from clinical trials there are many effective pharmacological and psychological treatments for mental illness. Epidemiological data, on the other hand, says otherwise.

Richard Bentall

#3. Caballero said the CIA's psychological torture methods often degenerated into physical torture, citing a young woman who was stripped, starved, deprived of sleep, beaten, burned, electrically shocked and sexually molested.

Anonymous

#4. When a cat goes to the bathroom I look away in embarrassment; when a dog goes to the bathroom I look on with encouragement.

Gregor Collins

#5. I sometimes wonder if I am crisscrossing my father's ghostly paths and we are entering same towns or roadside diners or the black ribbons of highways that gleam in the night rain. As if we were images in a time-lapse photograph.

Gloria Steinem

#6. I think Britain would be alright, if only we had a different Government.

William Hague

#7. I worked with great, brilliant directors. I've been so lucky. It's terrible to compare anyone, because you can't. But I can just tell you that this experience was just a truly magnificent experience for everyone involved.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

#8. The trip I made to Angola to study the prehistoric contents of the gravel beds as a means of deciding the age of the deposits and their economic potential was the first time prehistory had ever been used for such a purpose.

Louis Leakey

#9. I think it's really odd, too, that the public is so privy to how much money the actors make and what movies cost. It seems to me to be beside the point. When I go to a movie I really don't want to think about the money. I want to see the story.

Holly Hunter

#10. Isn't it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?

Denis Diderot

#11. There's nothing wrong with George. It is not possible to find fault with George. He's a perfect Scottish angel. He always shares the snacks that his mother sends him and he's better- looking than Jace. There, I said it. I'm not taking it back.

Cassandra Clare

#12. He was one of the most supremely stupid men I have ever met. He taught me a great deal.

John Fowles

#13. If we want there to be peace in the world, we have to be brave enough to soften what is rigid in our hearts, to find the soft spot and stay with it. We have to have that kind of courage and take that kind of responsibility. That's the true practice of peace.

Pema Chodron

#14. It was either the chaos of a crowd of thoughts or the silence of solitude ... nothing in between..

Sanhita Baruah

#15. I didn't know what I was gonna get the first time I sat down at a piano, but I loved it and it became my playmate for life.

Buffy Sainte-Marie