Quotes for When You Need Peace · Page 169

Serene words to slow down your world and bring you back to stillness.

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“Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say no when they mean yes, and drive a man out of his wits just for the fun of it.”

— Louisa May Alcott

“It was not a fashionable place, but even among the pleasant people there, the girls made few friends, preferring to live for one another.”

— Louisa May Alcott

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

— Louisa May Alcott

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

— Christopher Reeve

“In the last hundred years, we invented the automobile, the airplane, and weapons of mass destruction. We journeyed to the moon and built shiny new cities throughout the country.”

— Christopher Reeve

“Sitting in a chair for more than 4 years now has given me plenty of time to think about many of the distorted and irrational values in our society.”

— 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

“Now that would have been science fiction a few years ago, but it's here and it's happening and it doesn't matter whether it's an acute injury or a chronic injury.”

— 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

“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

“Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.”

— 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

“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

“The language of science—and especially of a science of man—is, necessarily, anti-individualistic, and hence a threat to human freedom and dignity.”

— Thomas Szasz

“Like the devout theologian seeing the Devil lurking everywhere, Menninger, the devout Freudian, sees aggression.”

— Thomas Szasz

“The passion to interpret as madness that with which we disagree seems to have infected the best of contemporary minds.”

— Thomas Szasz

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