Lawrence Freedman Quotes

#1. In terms of earthly life as you understand it, it is overly optimistic to imagine that eventually all illnesses will be conquered, all relationships be inevitably fulfilling, or to foresee a future in which all people on earth are treated with equality and respect.

Jane Roberts

#2. Love determined God to the renunciation of his divinity.

Ludwig Feuerbach

#3. The poet I saw once ...
but whose words have long been
in my mind, windows of invincible candles ...

Nathalie Handal

#4. Thanks to April," she whispered, "you have the wedding you've dreamed about ever since you were a little girl."
Dean's boom of laughter was one more reason she loved this man with all her heart.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#5. Look to the lilies how they grow! 'Twas thus the Saviour said, that we, Even in the simplest flowers that blow, God's ever-watchful care might see.

David Macbeth Moir

#6. They say that if you hug a person for at least twenty seconds you both release the calming and friendship-making hormone oxytocin.

Christine DeSmet

#7. I did the first study because I had been exposed to something that I took to be important and interesting - this thought reform process - in the military.

Robert Jay Lifton

#8. A sudden powerful transition to the offensive - the flashing sword of vengeance - is the greatest moment for the defense.

Lawrence Freedman

#9. He who created you without you will not justify you without you.

Augustine Of Hippo

#10. Axe was a quiet man, six foot four, with piercing blue eyes and curly hair. He was smart and the best Trivial Pursuit player I ever saw. I loved talking to him because of how much he knew. He would come out with answers that would have defied the learning of a Harvard professor.

Marcus Luttrell

#11. XAVIER: Being trapped in a life that you didn't choose is no f***** picnic, no matter how good it may appear to people outside of the situation.

Michelle A. Valentine

#12. If a man achieves or suffers change in premises which are deeply embedded in his mind, he will surely find that the results of that change will ramify throughout his whole universe.

Gregory Bateson

#13. Having a strategy suggests an ability to look up from the short term and the trivial to view the long term and the essential, to address causes rather than symptoms, to see woods rather than trees.

Lawrence Freedman

#14. People go to restaurants for so many different reasons. To court a girl, to make some deal. Maybe to talk to some lawyer about how to get an alimony settlement better than they got last week.

Gay Talese

#15. The Lord did strengthen them that they could bear up their burdens with ease, and they did submit cheerfully and with patience to all the will of the Lord.

Joseph Smith Jr.

#16. My mother and father didn't love each other, so they were always fighting.

Tina Turner

#17. You may ... make a little recreation of poetry, in the midst of your painful studies. Nevertheless, I cannot but advise you. Withhold thy throat from thirst. Be not so set upon poetry, as to be always poring on the passionate and measured pages ... let not the Circean cup intoxicate you.

Cotton Mather