"Mental disorders don't really live 'out there' waiting to be explained. They are constructs we have made up - and often not very compelling ones."

-- Allen Frances

#Waiting Quotes #Made Quotes #Disorder Quotes

“For me, romance isn't an over-the-top act. It's someone offering to help and to support me. Or if that person thinks I'm making the wrong decision, he'll tell me. I want him to be honest, because being that honest takes a lot of guts.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Children who have lost parents to HIV/AIDS are not only just as deserving of an education as any other children, but they may need that education even more. Being part of a school environment will prepare them for the future, while helping to remove the stigma and discrimination unfortunately associated with AIDS.”
“I'm a schizophrenic mix of wannabe glamourpuss and absolute slob, and my style is very much magistrate-meets-barmaid.”
“Security without liberty is called prison.”
“Americans want beauties, not me. Iâ€™m not the Parisian bombshell they expected. Can you see me as a chorus girl? Whereâ€™s my feather up the ass? They think Iâ€™m sad, theyâ€™re dumb. I donâ€™t connect to them”
“Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.”
“suffering sweetens the reward”

Source : F. E. Higgins (2008). “The Bone Magician”, Pan Macmillan
“Why no aggressive action?" Foaly squirmed in a harness built for two-legged creatures. "Oh yes, why no aggressive action? How I long for aggressive action." "I live for aggressive action!" thundered Orion squeakily which was unusual. "Oh, how I pray that dragon will turn 'round that I may smite it." "Smite it with what?" wandered Foaly "Your secret birthmark?" "Don't you mock my birthmark, which I may or may not have.”

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