Quotes to Stay Determined · Page 172

Fierce words to fuel your drive and remind you nothing can stop you.

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“I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a common-place dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.”

“The invigorating air did them both good, and much exercise worked wholesome changes in minds as well as bodies. They seemed to get clearer views of life and duty up there among…”

— Louisa May Alcott

“Those are not rogue nations behaving irresponsibly. They are allies, no less moral than we are.”

— Christopher Reeve

“Some people are able to accept living with a severe disability. I am not one of them, and that is why I have a keen interest in research and am deeply disturbed by unreasonable…”

— Christopher Reeve

“The life expectancy for Americans has practically doubled over the course of this century. Now it is our responsibility to ensure that from cradle to grave, these years are ones…”

— Christopher Reeve

“In scientific terms, we are very close to achieving the impossible; in practical terms, we have a long way to go.”

— Christopher Reeve

“Our scientists are on the threshold of major breakthroughs in almost every disease or condition that now cause so much hardship for people across the country and around the world.”

— Christopher Reeve

“That was something thought impossible until we put money and talent together and aimed it toward a problem.”

— Christopher Reeve

“I sometimes go back to walk through the ghostly remains of Sutton Place where the rude, new buildings stand squarely in one another’s river views.”

— John Cheever

“All literary men are Red Sox fans—to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.”

— John Cheever

“My veins are filled, once a week with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner distilled from the Adriatic and I am as bald as an egg. However I still get around and am mean to cats.”

— John Cheever

“He had that spooky bass voice meant to announce that he had entered the kingdom of manhood, but Rosalie knew that he was still outside the gates.”

— John Cheever

“I'm wicked, as you say, and I'm rude and I'm boorish and I discovered, after marrying Mr Scaddon, that I could be all these things and worse and that there would still be plenty…”

— John Cheever

“The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under…”

— John Cheever

“He was a tall man with an astonishing and somehow elegant curvature of the spine, formed by an enlarged lower abdomen, which he carried in a stately and contented way, as if it…”

— John Cheever

“The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one’s life and discover one’s usefulness.”

— John Cheever

“People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds; it is something one creates.”

— Thomas Szasz

“Since this is the age of science, not religion, psychiatrists are our rabbis, heroin is our pork, and the addict is the unclean person.”

— Thomas Szasz

“Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.”

— Thomas Szasz

“Moreover, the concept of mental illness also undermines the principle of personal responsibility, the ground on which all free political institutions rest.”

— Thomas Szasz

“Why is self-control, autonomy, such a threat to authority? Because the person who controls himself, who is his own master, has no need for an authority to be his master.”

— Thomas Szasz

“Parents teach children discipline for two different, indeed diametrically opposed, reasons: to render the child submissive to them and to make him independent of them. Only a…”

— Thomas Szasz

“The concept of disease is fast replacing the concept of responsibility.”

— Thomas Szasz

“People, especially liberals and psychiatrists, say that the two main causes of crime are mental illness and poverty. Insanity is therefore a defense in the criminal law.”

— Thomas Szasz

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