Famous Quotes & Sayings

R. D. Laing

A mental healer may be a psychiatrist. A psychiatrist may or may not be a mental healer.

R. D. Laing

In describing one way of going mad, I shall try to show that there is a comprehensible transition from the sane schizoid way of being-in-the-world to a psychotic way of being-in-the-world.

R. D. Laing

In the context of our present pervasive madness that we call normality, sanity, freedom, all our frames of reference are ambiguous and equivocal.

R. D. Laing

Experience is mad when it steps beyond the horizons of our common, that is, our communal sense.

R. C. Sproul

Doctrine does matter.

R. C. Sproul

We cannot change God. God is unchangeable. If changes are to be made, they must be made in us.

R. Buckminster Fuller

If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.

Protagoras

There are intelligible principles inherent in the matter of every phenomenon; because matter is essentially the sum of all the seemings that it has for any and all persons.

Publilius Syrus

No fortune is so good but that you may find something to grumble about.

Publilius Syrus

We may with advantage at times forget what we know.

Publilius Syrus

Whom Fortune wishes to destroy she first makes mad.

Publilius Syrus

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity. / No one knows what he can do till he tries.

Publilius Syrus

Every madman considers everyone else a madman.

Publilius Syrus

In doubtful matters boldness is everything.

Publilius Syrus

It matters not what you are thought to be, but what you are.

Preston Manning

Nothing disturbs me more than superficiality and mere sloganizing on matters of public policy, and the suspicion that what the speaker is saying represents the full extent of his knowledge on the subject.

Preet Bharara

Unfortunately, from what I can see from my vantage point as the U.S. Attorney here, illegal insider trading is rampant and may even be on the rise.

Potter Stewart

The Court today holds the Congress may say that some of the poor are too poor even to go bankrupt. I cannot agree.

Nelson Mandela

It's a tragedy what is happening, what Bush is doing. All Bush wants is Iraqi oil. There is no doubt that the U.S. is behaving badly. Why are they not seeking to confiscate weapons of mass destruction from their ally Israel? This is just an excuse to get Iraq's oil.

Nelson Mandela

The march to freedom is irreversible.

Nelson Mandela

In human affairs, no single person, organisation or social formation ever has a final or an absolutely correct position. It is through conversation, debate and critical discussion that we approach positions that may provide workable solutions.

Nelson Mandela

Isimangaliso must be the only place on the globe where the oldest land mammal (rhinoceros) and the world biggest terrestrial mammal (elephant) share an ecosystem with the world's oldest fish (coelacanth) and the world's biggest marine mammal (whale)

Nelson Mandela

The most difficult matter is not so much to change the world as yourself.

Nellie McKay

You know, if I can survive marching band, I can survive anything.

Nelsan Ellis

Rihanna and makeup gets me into LaLa Land.

Nell Carter

I've had diseases that lasted longer than my marriages. You know you are in a bad marriage if you walk down the aisle thinking, 'Is this dress right?

Neil Strauss

We're just fragile machines programmed with a false sense of our own importance. And every now and then the universe sends a reminder that we don't really matter to it...

Neil Young

Being a musician enables a person to bend the notes and express things that are inside you, no matter what.

Neil Young

I get into each thing I do, to the point where nothing else matters. I guess I'm an extremist.

Neil Young

You can't be 20 on Sugar Mountain.

Rachel Joyce

If we don't go mad once in a while, there's no hope.

Rachel Nichols

The list of problems that we all experience may be endless, but I honestly cannot abide by the rule that, 'He who yells louder is heard.'

Rachel Maddow

Activism is setting a goal of something you would like to be different, and figuring out what would have to change to achieve that goal. It's sort of like math.