Melvin Konner Quotes

#1. I use a lot of humor, and I follow the saying that if you want to tell people the truth, you better make them laugh first, otherwise, they will shoot you. So I can tell you a joke and maybe you will laugh at the beginning. But it's not about telling jokes.

Sayed Kashua

#2. In order to be treated fairly and equally, chidren have to be treated differently.

Melvin Konner

#3. A touching and compassionate yet completely professional account of the psychological
indeed spiritual
dimensions of the doctorDpatient relationship that make the difference between fixing and healing.

Melvin Konner

#4. There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.

Carl Sagan

#5. The Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus.

Timothy Keller

#6. Cottage cheese is one of our culture's most visible symbols of self-denial; marketed honestly, it would appear in dairy cases with warning labels: this substance is self-punitive; ingest with caution.

Caroline Knapp

#7. How do you feel?" he asked him. "Like a military academy," said Arthur. "Bits of me keep on passing out.

Douglas Adams

#8. I can be a badass DJ when I want, but I am also an insufferable music snob.

Rachel Cohn

#9. Watching 'Girls' has just given me renewed courage.

Caitlin Moran

#10. It is almost intrinsically impossible for ideas about how we are fooling ourselves to gain an adequate hearing. We are good enough at it to keep them nicely at bay.

Melvin Konner

#11. You deserve so much more than hiding out in high school basements. You don't deserve to be someone's secret, Ashlyn. You deserve to be the chorus to a person's favourite song. You deserve to be the dedication in their favourite book.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#12. Children are born as individuals. If we fail to see that, if we see them as clay to be molded in any shape we like, the tougher ones will fight back and end up spiteful and wild, while the less strong will lose that uniqueness they were born with.

Melvin Konner