Prolonged Agony Quotes

#1. We deceive ourselves if we believe we can hold on to old models as ideologies whimper off to a shallow grave in prolonged agony of people, institutions and cultures.

Said Elias Dawlabani

#2. Florida is a very healing place.

Burt Reynolds

#3. What I'm asking for is hard. It's easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn't possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don't matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.

Barack Obama

#4. Great tact and delicacy is necessary for the care of the mind of a child from three to six years, and an adult can have very little of it.

Maria Montessori

#5. Go on your knees before God. Bring all your idols; bring self-will, and pride, and every evil lust before Him, and give them up. Devote yourself, heart and soul, to His will; and see if you do not know of the doctrine.

Henry Ward Beecher

#6. When a lifestyle is created from the existence of your dream, you dont leave any room for failure.

Nikki Rowe

#7. In the past, it was known as a "massive stroke," and you simply died. But improved resuscitation techniques have now prolonged and refined the agony.

Jean-Dominique Bauby

#8. I have a strong urge to lie down and pretend this is not happening - like the old couple in Titanic.

Tina Fey

#9. Many common lies and hypocrisies are like that, just out of the harmony of the moment.

Saul Bellow

#10. I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long time - I think I was well into novel writing before I really thought, 'Actually, this is a valid pastime.'

Rachel Cusk

#11. If those to whom power is delegated do well, they will be respected; if not, they will be despised.

Thomas Paine

#12. We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#13. When you sit quietly and let go of every false self-definition , of everything you think you know about who you are, and then be what's left, what remains is the untarnished presence of who you've always been and still really are.

Erich Schiffmann

#14. As you learn more and more about the irrelevance of human life to the general mechanism of the universe, the idea of an interested god, becomes increasingly implausible.

Steven Weinberg

#15. No man can possibly improve in any company for which he has not respect enough to be under some degree of restraint.

Lord Chesterfield