Pete Earley Quotes

#1. The actor playing Lee got really irritated. He tried to escape by turning, running, or twisting and talking or yelling above the voice of the illness, but the illness didn't sit quietly.

Pete Earley

#2. So where are they moving today? They're going to move to be meaner to immigrants in order to bring their conference together.

Luis Gutierrez

#3. People with mental illnesses are dying on our streets. More than 350,000 are in jails and prisons. Most are people whose only real crime is they got sick.

Pete Earley

#4. The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, "divine."

Carl Jung

#5. I thought I saw him once, but it turned out to be a yeti

John Scalzi

#6. Unfortunately, we force people to break the law in order to get any kind of mental health treatment.

Pete Earley

#7. Sometimes I feel the only way I can get a major publisher interested in mental illness is if I find a character who has bipolar disorder and is also a love-sick vampire attending an English school called Hogwarts. But I'm not giving up.

Pete Earley

#8. You," he whispered, "in my bed."
... "Yeah," I whispered back. "With you.

Kristen Ashley

#9. [The lives of others come together in fragments. A light shining off a separate story can illuminate what had remained dark.

Lauren Groff

#10. In McKinsey's world, all of life is one of two things: strategy or organization.

Tom Peters

#11. Mental illnesses are so frightening and there's so much ignorance about them that I think it comforts people to think, 'Oh, well, it happens to these people because they deserve it.'

Pete Earley

#12. Having been a journalist for thirty-nine years, I've developed a pretty thick skin.

Pete Earley

#13. Don't be surprised. There is nothing new under the sun. Only endless repackagings

John Piper

#14. Natural selection is all about the differential success of rival DNA in getting itself transmitted vertically in the species archives.

Richard Dawkins

#15. I think that some of the greatest muckrakers and some of the greatest investigative journalists of all time had strong feelings about civil rights. There is a role for the journalist-advocate. And as long as you play your cards on the table, I think that's a role that we should allow.

Pete Earley

#16. Hope is a temporary cure until a real one comes along.

Marty Rubin

#17. Timothy Dunnigan: The kinds of metaphorical language that we use to describe the Hmong say far more about us, and our attachment to our own frame of reference, than they do about the Hmong.

Anne Fadiman

#18. Our health care system squanders money because it is designed to react to emergencies. Homeless shelters, hospital emergency rooms, jails, prisons - these are expensive and ineffective ways to intervene and there are people who clearly profit from this cycle of continued suffering.

Pete Earley

#19. Fortune loves to give bedroom slippers to people with wooden legs, and gloves to those with no hands.

Theophile Gautier

#20. One doesn't have to be a large corporation to benefit from the advantages of volume. This can also be achieved through joint ventures.

Norbert Reithofer

#21. There was however, a group of 507 individuals who were permanent street dwellers [in Miami.] These 507 were not indigent, down-on-their-luck families. They were single people and every one of them was mentally ill.

Pete Earley

#22. When the Tea Party comes to town, compromise goes out the door.

Claire McCaskill

#23. Rest you fair, good signior;
Your worship was the last man in our mouths.

William Shakespeare

#24. I don't think anybody really loves the sound of their own voice, but the tweakability is huge.

David Lynch