Mental Defect Quotes

#1. So-called worst-case event, when it happened, exceeded the worst case at the time. I have called this mental defect the Lucretius problem, after the Latin poetic philosopher who wrote that the fool believes that the tallest mountain in the world will be equal to the tallest one he has observed.

Anonymous

#2. Some persons never attain to the happy art of perspicuous expression, and it is equally true that some persons, thro' a mental defect of their own, will judge the most correct and certain language of others to be indefinite and ambiguous.

Oliver Ellsworth

#3. I've written about a lot of different things, but the whole idea of writing for another character is unusual for pop music. Most of the repertory is love songs, and most of mine isn't. I don't know if that's a mental defect, or shyness, or what.

Randy Newman

#4. For the most part, mental illness is caused by an absence of or defect in the love that a particular child required from its particular parents for successful maturation and spiritual growth. It

M. Scott Peck

#5. Only in the struggle between two philosophies can the weapon of brutal force, persistently and ruthlessly applied, lead to a decision for the side it supports.

Adolf Hitler

#6. Strong and independent? I'm neither. I'm just being pushed along by reality, whether I like it or not.

Haruki Murakami

#7. We are men, and propose to live like men in this free land, without the contamination of slave labor, or die like men, if need be, in asserting the rights of our race, our country, and our families.

Denis Kearney

#8. The Biblical world-view is the only one that accepts the reality of evil and suffering while giving both the cause and the purpose, while offering God-given strength and sustenance in the midst of it.

Ravi Zacharias

#9. If you believe in God, then you have to believe in promises.

Piyush Naik

#10. I had to learn that I knew nothing. I also had to learn that it was okay to think for myself and that my happiness, my true salvation, was not dependent on the approval of others.
Gregory Michael Brewer

Arin Murphy-Hiscock

#11. Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.

Taylor Hackford

#12. Why get killed when you can run ... your ego will heal much faster than a broken jaw.

Richard Pryor

#13. So many times you've taken my breath away or made it feel like my heart was trapped inside my stomach. But last night was more than any fourteen-year-old boy could handle. So I took your face in my hands and I kissed you, just like I've been dreaming of doing for over a year now.

Colleen Hoover

#14. Tech never comes back the same.

Samuel J. Palmisano

#15. I believe the challenge the city faces is attracting continued development into the inner and western part of Jersey City. Nobody should be left behind as Jersey City continues to prosper and grow.

Vincent Frank

#16. Agents are deal makers, and they're really, really good at making deals. But they're also exceptionally helpful after the deal is made - agents act as a good intermediary between authors and publishers whenever disagreements come up.

John Romaniello

#17. Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

Charles Dickens

#18. America is a construction of mind, not of race or inherited class or ancestral territory.

Robert Hughes

#19. Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

John Ruskin

#20. I enjoy the crowds. It's not that hard to talk to them, to have fun with them.

Boo Weekley