"It is something to hold the scepter with a firm hand. [Lat., Est aliquid valida sceptra tenere manu.]"

-- Ovid

#Hands Quotes #Royalty Quotes #Firm Quotes

“For a selfie, it's not about the pose, it's about you. There's a reason why you look great in the picture or you look great in real life, because someone has caught the essence of who you are, and a pose is not you.”
“One of my patients told me that when she tried to tell her story people often interrupted her to tell her that they once had something just like that happen to them. Subtly her pain became a story about themselves. Eventually she stopped talking to most people. It was just too lonely. We connect through listening. When we interrupt what someone is saying to let them know that we understand, we move the focus of attention to ourselves. When we listen, they know we care. Many people with cancer talk about the relief of having someone just listen.”
“Two people can make love but that isn't necessarily love.”
“To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.”
“[I]t's not the advertising, it's the dog food. Every time anybody has a look at it or has a lick of it, they don't like it.”
“I love being able to create something from the page and bring it to life.”
“The emancipation of the scholars and scientists from philosophy is according to [Nietzsche] only a part of the democratic movement, i.e. of the emancipation of the low from subordination to the high. ... The plebeian character of the contemporary scholar or scientist is due to the fact that he has no reverence for himself.”
“The idea that anybody was forced, or pressured, or encouraged, is not true.”

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