"Toni hears voices," said Trapp. "But who is this Dr. Ellsworth to tell her she's a schizophrenic? Maybe she just perceives better than the rest of us. Maybe the voices she hears are just uncommunicated ideas, floating free."

-- Louis Sachar

#Voice Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Drs Quotes

“It's funny because I think that both France and Britain are known for their distinctive styles, and everyone says that France is so chic and elegant but I think, more than that, French women are renowned for dressing in what suits them.”

Source : "Maje Fetes Alexa Chung in a French Meets British Fashion Collab". Interview with Kerry Pieri, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 12, 2012.
“The devil has been defeated, stop trying to defeat him. What we have left is the fight of faith, and it's a good fight!”
“To dig a straight furrow, the plowman needs to keep his eyes on a fixed point ahead of him. That keeps him on a true course. If, however, he happens to look back to see where he has been, his chances of straying are increased. The results are crooked and irregular furrows...Fix your attention on your...goals and never look back on your earlier problems....If our energies are focused not behind us but ahead of us--on eternal life and the joy of salvation--we assuredly will obtain it.”
“Let us never forget that, to be profited, that is, to be spiritually improved in knowledge, faith, holiness, joy and love, is the end of hearing sermons, and not merely to have our taste gratified by genius, eloquence and oratory.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 478, 1895.
“In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad”

Source : FaceBook post by Pamela Geller from Dec 05, 2016
“We don't know what we think until we see what we say.”

Source : Clifford Geertz (1973). “The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays”, p.77, Basic Books
“Man is the only mammal whose normal method of locomotion is to walk on two legs. A pattern of mammal behavior that emerges only once in the whole history of life on earth takes a great deal of explaining.”
“Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you. Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional. Physical pain is a fact that comes with living, just as illness or financial woes or broken relationships are facts. But misery is a state of mind, a reaction to the facts, that can be controlled or altered by an act of will....”

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