George's Marvellous Medicine Book Quotes

#1. He was falling between glacial walls, he didn't know how anyone could fall so far away from everyone else in the world. So far to fall, so cold all the way, so steep and dark between those morphine-coloured walls ...

Nelson Algren

#2. I don't know which is worse - that Raffe didn't jump in to defend me, or that he bet that I would lose.

Susan Ee

#3. Hypersegregated inner-city schools - in which one finds no more than five or ten white children, at the very most, within a student population of as many as 3,000 - are the norm, not the exception, in most northern urban areas today.

Jonathan Kozol

#4. I went right to the 'Guide to the Marvel Universe,' which has every Marvel character from A-Z, and fortunately, I had every issue. I found 'Deathlok,' read about him there.

J. August Richards

#5. What you don't want to do is dig around here like a groundhog on crack.

Joe Teti

#6. After long enough, everyone in the world will be you enemy.

Chuck Palahniuk

#7. When death, the great Reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

George Eliot

#8. We want laws to be applied predictably.

Nancy Gibbs

#9. We manage to avoid being happy while struggling to become happy,

Anonymous

#10. Teaching is a never-ending story. The work is never over; the job is never done.

Andy Hargreaves

#11. Let me tell you a secret, Caitlin. We're still in the cave. It's just bigger, and we wear nicer clothes. We make alliances and try to be civil, we save the weak instead of leaving them out in the cold to die ...

Greg Iles

#12. There are those today that say we must do as others do, that we must conform to the world [to win it], that we must swim with the tide, that we must move with the crowd. But the believer should say, No.

Billy Graham

#13. Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#14. Raising your level of performance requires a proper mentality and meaning from within. This gives you the ability and drive to work on the things necessary to go to a higher level. When people ask me how to raise their level of performance, the first thing I ask is, How important is it to you?

Dan Gable

#15. At the time I was growing up in the business I was very well established within the industry as a child actor and as I grew up and turned into a teenager there was less and less work.

Morgan Brittany