Phineas P. Quimby Quotes

#1. The constant movement of a military life can be tough on children. My father was an officer in the army, and I was forced to change elementary schools six times.

Kim Young-ha

#2. Human misery universally arises from some error that man admits as true. We confound our fears with the idea feared, and place the evil in the thing seen or believed. Here is a great error, for we never see what we are afraid of.

Phineas Quimby

#3. When you fall in love for the first time, you're naive to every feeling that you're feeling, and you're almost obsessed with or addicted to that person. Your life is consumed by them, and everything you want to do revolves around them. I think it's great.

Alex Pettyfer

#4. The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him

Voltaire

#5. Look at all the people who received miracles from Jesus during His ministry on earth. Not a single one of them deserved it.

Paul Silway

#6. Ms. Moore, I want you to find my grandparents. This is important to me. I want to meet them and learn more about my heritage. I would like to know what my parents were like.

Linda Weaver Clarke

#7. The mind is matter in solution and matter is mind in form.

Phineas Quimby

#8. Knowing is better than not knowing. Every time.

Cassandra Clare

#9. It is almost a matter of no account how far Marguerite will penetrate, whether she will ever be brought back or whether she will fall a prey to some wandering tramp - the sleepwalking of the infinite has seized upon her and never more will let her go.

Hermann Broch

#10. Life is a series of mistakes connected by failures to learn from them.

Thomas Paul

#11. One thing is certain: the time will come when the opinions of priests and doctors must give way to the science of life; for their opinions lead to death and misery, and the science of life is health and happiness.

Phineas Quimby

#12. There are a lots of clowns in our family - our house is a fun house.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

#13. It may seem strange to those in health that our beliefs affect us. The fact is, there is nothing of us but belief. It is the whole capital and stock in trade of man. It is all that can be changed, and embraces everything man has made or ever will make.

Phineas Quimby

#14. We do have a two against one rule. If two sisters feel very strongly about a design or trend we want to try, we go for it.

Kourtney Kardashian

#15. The divine power moves with difficulty, but at the same time surely.

Euripides

#16. Science is wisdom reduced to practice.

Phineas Quimby

#17. The silkworm spins out his life, and, wrapping himself in his labor, dies.

Phineas Quimby

#18. You can get away with anything if you wear great clothes, throw great parties, and give money to kids with cleft palates.

Elizabeth Little

#19. A car is like a mother-in-law - if you let it, it will rule your life.

Jaime Lerner

#20. If your environment is stacked against you, you will use up your strong drive for self-control, and despite good intentions, your efforts may fail.

Paul Rosman

#21. Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.

Walter Gilbert