Shenkin Clinic Quotes

#1. Then he said, 'Well, Matty, we don't seem to go together at all, do we. I'm simply not broadminded enough for your Jews and your niggers.

Doris Lessing

#2. His smile is a stranger resting on a haunted face, only coming out for poisons turning him into a ghost.

Craig Stone

#3. No black man wants a blue-eyed black child, and no white man wants a kinky-haired white child. Nature didn't mean it to be that way.

Muhammad Ali

#4. Dying wasn't so bad, not really. Not when you could go out like this, on a summer's evening with the fireflies winking in the trees. She always thought dying would be a scream into a void, a thrashing, a searing. Not this slow and sleepy drip.

Megan Shepherd

#5. I debated whether to tell them I had long since abandoned my writing career and moved into radishes and fraud, but decided the timing was wrong.

Susan Juby

#6. It is curious that while good people go to great lengths to spare their children from suffering, few of them seem to notice that the one (and only) guaranteed way to prevent all the suffering of their children is not to bring those children into existence in the first place.

David Benatar

#7. The purpose of law is to prevent the strong always having their way.

Ovid

#8. I'm really fascinated by the self and how our selves shift and change over time and in relationship to different people.

Lynn Shelton

#9. To be fair, I don't get mad when people laugh at me when I fall down.

Owen Benjamin

#10. Men regarded ability in speaking as a peculiar gift, needed only by the lawyer, clergyman, or statesman. Today we have come to realize that it is the indispensable weapon of those who would forge ahead in the keen competition of business.

Susan Cain

#11. It takes a year, nephew ... a full turn of the calendar, to get over losing someone.

Annie Proulx

#12. Let us look and see, then, how they manage their concerns - they for whose cause we are to labour, devote ourselves, and grow enthusiastic.

Max Stirner

#13. Fierce Determination and Gentle Humility are the ornaments which make one attractive in the eyes of the Lord.

Radhanath Swami

#14. I started to study, because I knew I had to learn a lot about myself as an actor; you can't act the same as you did as a child.

Roddy McDowall

#15. I'd say you have to be really committed to the field, show up for every audition and to be aware that very few make it in this field.

Will Estes