Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gilbert Herdt

On one hand there is no association between mental illness and homosexuality. On the other hand, we also know that gays and lesbians have higher levels of stress problems.

Matt Williams

People judge gays before they meet them. They're really good, as you can see.

Damon Romine

These representations on reality television have really broadened people's perceptions of gays and lesbians.

Edmund White

Originally I was opposed to gay assimilation and targeted gay marriage as just another effort on the part of gays to resemble their straight neighbours.

Edmund White

AIDS had won gays sympathy; they no longer seemed the privileged brats that the general populace had resented in the 1970s.

Rick Garcia

I know that he has said things in the past that have been offensive to some groups of people - gays, in particular to Jews. But I think that the invitation from the Nation of Islam to Jews and to gays may be a step in the right direction. I took it as such.

Barack Obama

I think what you're seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they've got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out.

Carol Shields

We are too kind, too willing--too unwilling too--reaching out blindly with a grasping hand but not knowing how to ask for what we don't even know we want.

Carlos Castaneda

Your thoughts and your actions are fixed forever in their terms. That is slavery. I, on the other hand, brought you freedom. Freedom is expensive, but the price is not impossible. So, fear your captors, your masters. Don't waste your time and your power fearing me.

Carlos Castaneda

A guardian is broad-minded and understanding. A guard, on the other hand, is a vigilante, narrow-minded and most of the time despotic.

C. S. Lewis

I don't want to hold you hand!

Kenneth Jackson

We have to hand the torch to the next generation.

Allen Pritchett

We have to handle the road and crowd.

Howard Dean

We have needed a strong, steady hand in this party.

Aaron Tveit

I can clap with one hand.

Brandon Lincoln

We were trying to stay poised; that was our main focus, to handle their runs. They're a talented team, so we knew they were going to have some game-changing runs in them. When they had those, we tried to remain poised and handle them as well as possible.

John Winn

We have to get students rising to that higher standard.

Cathy Hay

We've seen prices pushing higher since about the middle of February.

Mark Richt

We're just trying to get better down there, ... We just need to get more (touchdowns). We're not going to get a touchdown every time, but we need to get a higher percentage of them.

Charles Holliday

Ultimately, it will be higher prices for the consumer.

Dave Chappelle

The higher up I went, the less happy I was.

Donald Selkin

This was a strange day, but overall it was OK. All other things being equal, we should open higher tomorrow.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The higher you go, the fewer women there are.

Brian Ellis

We have improved every game. Now we probably need to take another step higher to play with Herkimer.

Jane Reynolds

We have higher standards for teachers. We should have higher standards for teachers.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness ...

Anton Chekhov

If many remedies are prescribed for an illness you can be sure it has no cure

Pete Earley

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.

David D. Burns

Depression is an illness and not a necessary part of healthy living.

Marianne Williamson

People with AIDS, cancer and other illnesses need free nonmedical support services.

Thomas Mann

One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.

David Dye

We can all take a moment to congratulate ourselves here today, but only a moment. One mining fatality, one mining injury, one occupational illness is one too many, and you know we still have work to do.

Ed Looney

I think it's a devastating illness, it's an illness that if it's not treated, it will end up that the person's whole lifestyle will be affected.

Paul Larsen

People like to think mental illness means insane, when thats just not true. There has to be a social conscious-wakening around it.

Carol Moseley Braun

It's hard to be the first. It's almost as if I'm subject to a different level of inspection.

Tom Robinson

We have never operated outside permit levels at the plant.

Ian Hamilton

The process sets wage levels for the country.

DJ Jazzy Jeff

As a DJ I am never 100 percent in charge of the sound. The sound levels are controlled by someone at the sound board of the venue.

Dexter Scott King

Veganism has given me a higher level of awareness and spirituality, primary because the energy associated with eating has shifted to other areas. If you’re violent to yourself by putting [harmful] things into your body that violate its spirit, it will be difficult not to perpetuate that [violence] onto someone else.

David Allen

Without a gut-level sense that you are ultimately in control of what's happening to you, you won't even consider the option that you could manage it better.

David Deutsch

The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular level of the predictive hierarchy, but the ones that contain the deepest explanations.

Jane Yolen

Get up from your desk and wander outside occasionally. To be a good writer one needs to be a good observer, and there isn't a lot to be observed at desk level.

Alanis Morissette

I just feel compelled to continue to be transparent. It just really levels the playing field and eradicates the shame that I have, or that one might have, about being human. So I'm going to just keep going.

Tim Healy

We have to get a lot more physically and mentally tough. That's a concern.

Leon Washington

We know he can do it. It's all about getting mentally prepared.

David Satcher

There is no health without mental health.

Erin Sullivan

We are going to look to perfect the little things. Make no mental mistakes.

Alain Prost

I like the mentality of the Americans. It's like when you talk about money.

P. J. Harvey

The one thing we preach is mental toughness and we showed it tonight.

Roberto Torres

Where is your mental GPS taking you today? Is that where you want to go?

Kurt Vonnegut

Writers can treat their mental illnesses every day.

Bryce Taylor

When it comes down to it, it seems like we are putting too much pressure on ourselves. As a shooter, you have to stay confident. It's all mental when it comes to our shooting.

Carlos Castaneda

If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.

Carlos Castaneda

The world is such-and-such or so-and-so only because we tell ourselves that that is the way it is.

Carlos Castaneda

If a warrior is to succeed at anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.

Stephanie Uecker

Whenever we would get stressed out, we would talk.

Agnes Repplier

In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin

Dianna Agron

Stress is the worst thing. That's the ultimate demise of any good thing.

Diane von Furstenberg

Go to a place where you're not going to be stressed, because a honeymoon itself can be a stressful thing.

Diane von Furstenberg

Do less but do better. Get back to yoga. Remember that stress is not progress.

Diane von Furstenberg

The important thing is to take your time and not get stressed.