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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3be878e | There was only one who understood me, and he understood me wrongly." Miss" | Henryk Sienkiewicz | ||
| 3c53561 | hatred is degenerated love, | Henryk Sienkiewicz | ||
| 7b8ecba | without noise of drums or | Henryk Sienkiewicz | ||
| b2b62e1 | As I have said, I am comparatively speaking calm, do not wish for anything, or expect anything, am resigned in fact to that kind of spiritual paralysis until the time comes when bodily paralysis carries me off, as it carried off my father. | Henryk Sienkiewicz | ||
| e6307fb | quarrel with Yeremi at the time, still Chigirin | Henryk Sienkiewicz | ||
| 7ed7c29 | Youth is the one worthwhile treasure in this world, no matter how miserable the rest of life might be. | Henryk Sienkiewicz | ||
| 82e1889 | A very poor man lives upon crumbs, and smiles gratefully--through tears. 6 | Henryk Sienkiewicz | ||
| c921132 | Roma se tapa los oidos cuando te oye; y el mundo se rie de ti. | Henryk Sienkiewicz | ||
| b0440aa | F*ck political correctness, that went down with the World Trade Center. | Blackie Lawless | ||
| 8faab6c | It appears to me that many cultured people are attacked by the same disease. Criticism of ourselves and everything else is corroding our active power; we have no stable basis, no point of issue, no faith in life. | Henryk Sienkiewicz | ||
| 1075610 | first wrong. | Henryk Sienkiewicz | ||
| 08d32c4 | I renounced complete happiness in order to secure a part of it. | Henryk Sienkiewicz | ||
| 8f813e0 | I feel restless, and something seems to weigh me down. | Henryk Sienkiewicz | ||
| e1801a9 | Expectancy of anything is always oppressive. When | Henryk Sienkiewicz | ||
| 68448c5 | If you borrowed the very moonbeams for your head-dress, if you were a hundred times more beautiful than my fancy can paint, you would be as nothing to me,--less than nothing, because an object of aversion. | Henryk Sienkiewicz | ||
| b56288e | mandassero con lei il suo seguito, il | Henryk Sienkiewicz | ||
| f0c160a | A potem, wyciagnawszy swoj rozowy paluszek, dotknela nim bialej jedwabnej jaki Zbyszkowej i cofajac go natychmiast zapytala: -- A jutro tez bedzie moj? | Henryk Sienkiewicz | ||
| 31f4575 | Gdybym istotnie przy tej jalowiznie, przy tej niemocy czynu, posiadal nawet genialne zdolnosci, to bylbym jakims szczegolnym rodzajem geniusza bez teki. | Henryk Sienkiewicz | ||
| c0c2e68 | I meet you with my heart in my hand. | Gloria E. Anzaldúa | ||
| c573db5 | Church is kind of a "borderland," as Gloria E. Anzaldua writes: "It is in a constant state of transition. The prohibited and forbidden are its inhabitants."[3] When I read her words, I think about how much Jesus crossed over into what is prohibited and forbidden in his ministry, in all his dining, traveling, consorting, working, living, drinking, and partying with those who would fit that category of banned. And every time he crossed over, .. | Mihee Kim-Kort | ||
| 5b1a5bc | If we do not secure the foundation, we cannot secure the edifice. | Blaise Pascal | ||
| 0bddc67 | lawyers' offices to sign the immunity agreement, her grandmother, Bernice, had said, "At last I can sleep at night." A few" | Andrew Morton | ||
| 0795d09 | These eight rules [above] contain all the precepts for solid and immutable proofs. | Blaise Pascal | ||
| 439e152 | When it comes to dead bodies in current psychotropic trials, there are a greater number of them in the active treatment groups than in the placebo groups. This is quite different from what happens in penicillin trials or trials of drugs that really work." --DAVID HEALY, PROFESSOR OF PSYCHIATRY AT CARDIFF UNIVERSITY, WALES (2008)1" | Robert Whitaker | ||
| 49226e8 | But here is the conundrum. Given this great advance in care, we should expect that the number of disabled mentally ill in the United States, on a per-capita basis, would have declined over the past fifty years. We should also expect that the number of disabled mentally ill, on a per-capita basis, would have declined since the arrival in 1988 of Prozac and the other second-generation psychiatric drugs. We should see a two-step drop in disabi.. | Robert Whitaker | ||
| aac9152 | If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us." --ADLAI STEVENSON (1952)" | Robert Whitaker | ||
| 0c72029 | The prescribing of stimulants to ADHD youth began to take off in the 1980s, and today, thirty years later, studies have failed to show that this treatment helps children grow up and thrive. In a 2012 op-ed published in the New York Times, Alan Sroufe, a professor of psychology at the University of Minnesota's Institute of Child Development, told of this bottom-line finding: "To date, no study has found any long-term benefit of attention-def.. | Robert Whitaker | ||
| 459a34c | I didn't know about jealousy or depressions or anything like that. I had such a wonderful existence being a kindergarten teacher - you didn't suffer from anything like that, you got tired but that was it. | Andrew Morton | ||
| 87a1eba | The quest of the handsome prince was complete. He had found his fair maiden and the world had its fairytale. In her ivory tower, Cinderella was unhappy, locked away from her friends, her family and the outside world. As the public celebrated the Prince's fortune, the shades of the prison-house closed inexorably around Diana. For all her aristocratic breeding, this innocent young kindergarten teacher felt totally at sea in the deferential hi.. | Andrew Morton | ||
| 01e7c14 | Lonely and feeling sorry for herself, she regularly wandered from her second floor apartment to the kitchens to chat to the staff. On one famous occasion Diana, barefoot and casually dressed in jeans, buttered toast for an astonished footman. | Andrew Morton | ||
| bdc9e9d | It was a memorable night of riotous jollity. Princess Margaret attached a balloon to her tiara, Prince Andrew tied another to the tails of his dinner jacket while royal bar staff dispensed a cocktail called "A Long Slow Comfortable Screw up against the Throne." Rory Scott recalls dancing with Diana in front of the then Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, and embarrassing himself by continually standing on Diana's toes. The comedian Spike Mil.. | Andrew Morton | ||
| 6e1045f | The quest of the handsome prince was complete. He had found his fair maiden and the world had its fairytale. | Andrew Morton | ||
| 4d088da | I was very calm the next morning when we were getting up at Clarence House. Must have been awake about 5am. Interesting--they put me in a bedroom overlooking the Mall which meant I didn't get any sleep. I was very, very calm, deathly calm. I felt I was a lamb to the slaughter. I knew it and couldn't do anything about it. My last night of freedom with Jane at Clarence House. Father was so thrilled he waved himself stupid. We went past St Mar.. | Andrew Morton | ||
| 4f4436d | Charles used to want to go for long walks around Balmoral the whole time when we were on our honeymoon. His idea of enjoyment would be to sit on top of the highest hill at Balmoral. It is beautiful up there. I completely understand; he would read Laurens van der Post or Jung to me, and bear in mind I hadn't a clue about psychic powers or anything, but I knew there was something in me that hadn't been awoken yet and I didn't think this was g.. | Andrew Morton | ||
| 095a43d | Then it was make-or-break time for me. We went to [Australia] New Zealand, Alice Springs. This was the real hard crunch, the hard end of being the Princess of Wales. There were thousands of press following us. We were away six weeks and the first day we went to this school in Alice Springs. It was hot, I was jet-lagged, being sick. I was too thin. The whole world was focusing on me every day. I was in the front of the papers. I thought that.. | Andrew Morton | ||
| 049b9e0 | Diana's sister] Jane's wonderfully solid. If you ring up with a drama, she says: 'Golly, gosh, Duch, how horrible, how sad and how awful' and gets angry. But my sister Sarah swears: 'Poor Duch, such a shitty thing to happen.' My father says: 'Just remember we always love you.' But that summer [1988] when I made so many cock-ups I sat myself down in the autumn, when I was in Scotland, and I remember saying to myself: 'Right, Diana, it's no g.. | Andrew Morton | ||
| cb4fded | At the Aids hospice last week [July 1991] with Mrs Bush was another stepping stone for me. I had always wanted to hug people in hospital beds. This particular man who was so ill started crying when I sat on his bed and he held my hand and I thought 'Diana, do it, just do it,' and I gave him an enormous hug and it was just so touching because he clung to me and he cried. Wonderful! It made him laugh, that's all right. On the other side of ro.. | Andrew Morton | ||
| 5d201dd | Doubtless there was discussion in the teachers' common room about which sister the latest Spencer recruit to Poplar class would emulate, Sarah or Jane. It was a close run thing. Diana was in awe of her eldest sister but it wasn't until later in life that she forged a close relationship with Jane. During their youth Jane was more likely to put her weight and invective behind brother Charles than her kid sister. Diana's inevitable inclination.. | Andrew Morton | ||
| 6268d47 | Diana had been the Cinderella of her family for long enough. She had felt her spirit suppressed by school routine and her character cramped by her minor position in the family. Diana was eager to spread her wings and start her own life in London. The thrill of independence beckoned. As her brother Charles says: "Suddenly the insignificant ugly duckling was obviously going to be a swan." | Andrew Morton | ||
| b3d87a5 | should be published, | Andrew Morton | ||
| 93b347e | While Amanda may be considered as the "official candidate" whose breeding and background made her eminently acceptable at Court, the Prince was also conducting a stormy relationship with Anna Wallace, the daughter of a Scottish landowner whom he had met while fox hunting in November 1979. She was the latest of a long line of girlfriends, drawn for the most part from the upper reaches of the aristocracy, who had appeared on his romantic hori.. | Andrew Morton | ||
| d9e5b8f | The support of her family is matched by the encouragement of the small group of friends and counsellors who see the real Diana, not the glowing image presented for public consumption. They are under no illusions that, while the Princess is a woman of considerable virtues, her character is prone to pessimism and despair, qualities which increase the likelihood of her leaving the system. The departure of the Duchess of York from the royal sce.. | Andrew Morton | ||
| e918450 | As the Princess performs the impossible balancing act which her life requires, she drifts inexorably into obsession, continually discussing her problems. Her friend Carolyn Bartholomew argues it is difficult not to be self-absorbed when the world watches everything she does. "How can you not be self-obsessed when half the world is watching everything you do; the high-pitched laugh when someone is talking to somebody famous must make you ver.. | Andrew Morton | ||
| 7cb105b | Soon they would be together forever, the subterfuge and deceit ended. It was nearly time to let the world into their secret. The night before the engagement announcement, which took place on February 24, 1981, she packed a bag, hugged her loyal friends and left Coleherne Court forever. She had an armed Scotland Yard bodyguard for company, Chief Inspector Paul Officer, a philosophical policeman who is fascinated by runes, mysticism and the a.. | Andrew Morton |