Historiographies Quotes

#1. The fatal weakness of most psychiatric historiographies lies in the historians' failure to give sufficient weight to the role of coercion in psychiatry and to acknowledge that mad-doctoring had nothing to do with healing.

Thomas Szasz

#2. Among the liberties of citizens that are guaranteed are ... the right to believe what one chooses, the right to differ from his neighbor, the right to pick and choose the political philosophy he likes best, the right to associate with whomever he chooses, the right to join groups he prefers ...

William O. Douglas

#3. The happiest pillow on which you may rest your head is the knowledge of God's will. I cannot imagine a more miserable situation than consciously to be out of God's will.

R.T. Kendall

#4. The reason that one person rejects you will be the exact same reason someone else is drawn to you.

Richard Fenton

#5. There is something about someone making a fantastic sandwich, taking care to spread lots of mayo all the way to the edges. Making sure every bite has a bit of everything in it. There's something special about that.

April Bloomfield

#6. Nobody looks better than when they are helping someone else.

Kevin Kling

#7. Strangely enough I'm better on a stage. I love that I feel like I blossom in front of a whole bunch of people.

Hugh Grant

#8. There is no love like a mother's - she who carries the child that God knits in the womb, she who nourishes and guides, she who teaches and inspires, she who gives of her heart and soul and self for the good and the happiness of her children and her family.

Ronald Reagan

#9. If I'm not a glorified prostitute, I don't know what one is.

J.M. Darhower

#10. From the moment absurdity is recognized, it becomes a passion, the most harrowing of all. But whether or not one can live with one's passions, whether or not one can accept their law, which is to burn the heart they simultaneously exalt - that is the whole question.

Albert Camus

#11. One's neighbor is always the enemy. That is the nature of things.

Gore Vidal

#12. A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse - not a remarkable mathematician.

Warren Buffett

#13. Your prospect's enthusiasm for your product or service is a product of your enthusiasm for your product or service.

Tim Connor

#14. They do not desire anything more than everything they have known.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#15. The least-bad scenario is a hard landing, global recession worse than the 1930s. The worst-case borrows from the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: war, famine, pestilence and death.

Kenneth S. Deffeyes