Jean Martin Quotes

#1. They mouth love's language. Gnash
The thirteen teeth
Your lean jaws grin with. Lash
Your itch and quailing, nude greed of the flesh.
Love's breath in you is stale, worded or sung,
As sour as cat's breath,
Harsh of tongue.

James Joyce

#2. How is it, one fine morning, Duchenne discovered a disease which probably existed in the time of Hippocrates.

Jean-Martin Charcot

#3. The mind abhors a vacancy & is wont to people it with phantoms.

David Mitchell

#4. Poverty affects people of all races.

Bill Bennett

#5. Now, there's this about cynicism, Sergeant. It's the universe's most supine moral position. Real comfortable. If nothing can be done, then you're not some kind of shit for not doing it, and you can lie there and stink to yourself in perfect peace.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#6. Symptoms, then, are in reality nothing but a cry from suffering organs.

Jean-Martin Charcot

#7. His books distracted him for a while. They were like the aspirins you take when you've got a headache. They kill the pain for two hours and then it comes back.

Barbara Vine

#8. Theory is good; but it doesn't prevent things from existing.

Jean-Martin Charcot

#9. My father was a steel worker and Martin's [Schulz] grandfather was a miner in Saarland. In these occupations, there is a particular awareness of solidarity. That creates links that aren't present in other relationships.

Jean-Claude Juncker

#10. At the time, Jean-Claude [Juncker] was already an important man in Brussels. I was a young representative in the European Parliament. We talked for a long time and from that point on, our connection became increasingly deep. But our working-class origins are at least as important to our bond.

Martin Schulz

#11. This happened not once, but twice - first with Martin Heidegger's magnum opus, Being and Time, and then with his pupil Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness. (We discuss Sartre in the next section.)

Christopher Panza

#12. Life is a succession of afflictions for the heart.

George Sand

#13. My all-time favourite political promise - more a boast than a promise, really - came from former Montreal mayor Jean Drapeau, who said in the lead-up to the 1976 Olympics, 'The Olympics can no more lose money than a man can have a baby.'

Martin O'Malley

#14. It's sort of the American way to go up and down the ladder, maybe several times in a lifetime.

Martha Stewart

#15. One of my first favorite records was the debut Garbage album, which I heard when I was very young. Shirley Manson is a great female vocalist and performer and I admire her for that.

Taylor Momsen

#16. I consider that my best performance ever was as Peer Gynt.

Leo McKern

#17. Life's persistent and most urgent question is 'What are you doing for others?' " - MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Jean Shafiroff

#18. One can't allow blind loyalty to a friendship to lead one away from acting in the public interest. If Martin [Schulz] were to propose something that was totally absurd, our friendship would not prevent me from doing the opposite.

Jean-Claude Juncker

#19. If the clinician, as observer, wishes to see things as they really are, he must make a tabula rasa of his mind and proceed without any preconceived notions whatever.

Jean-Martin Charcot

#20. In Europe, even more so than in national politics, we have to follow the principle laid down by Martin Luther: Use language that the people will understand, but don't just tell them what they want to hear.

Jean-Claude Juncker

#21. We've got to start thinking of school as a lifelong process. That's the only way we'll keep abreast and be able to share in the wealth of the new "knowledge society."

Price Pritchett