Favorite Quotes

[Turtle]

As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Michaelangelica]

Like a celestial chaperon, the placebo leads us through the uncharted passageways of mind and gives us a greater sense of infinity than if we were to spend all our days with our eyes hypnotically glued to the giant telescope at Mt. Palomar.

What we see ultimately is that the placebo isn t really necessary and that the mind can carry out its difficult and wondrous missions unprompted by little pills.

The placebo is only a tangible object made essential in an age that feels uncomfortable with intangibles, an age that prefers to think that every inner effect must have an outer cause.

Since it has size and shape and can be hand-held, the placebo satisfies the contemporary craving for visible mechanisms and visible answers .

The placebo, then, is an emissary between the will to live and the body.

Cousins, Norman

1915-1990 American Editor Humanitarian Author

It requires a great deal of faith for a man to be cured by his own placebos.

Mcclenahan, John L.

:phones:

 

I gotta stop him before he unleashes unholy havoc and it's just another Tuesday night in Sunnydale

Buffy TVS

:cheer:

[Turtle]

Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings. ~ Salman Rushdie

[Michaelangelica]

Some quotes for the "Tough Economic Times"?

 

He had observed that people who did lie were, on the whole, more resourceful and ambitious and successful than people who did not lie.

 

Of course they had a right (to lie to you). Don't be such an ***, Scheisskopf.

People have a right to do anything that's not forbidden by law, and there's no law against lying to you.

 

Catch 22

http://www.workinghumor.com/quotes/catch22.shtm

[Turtle]

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible. ~Bertrand Russell

[Turtle]

Intolerance is the ''Do Not Touch'' sign on something that cannot bear touching. We do not mind having our hair ruffled, but we will not tolerate any familiarity with the toupee which covers our baldness. ~ Eric Hoffer

[Turtle]

If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down?

We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason. ~ Jack Handey

[Turtle]

I find that I have twice as much to say when I only think things half-way through. ~ Beatrix Terranna Goodwon

[Michaelangelica]

"I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls.

They always say because it's such a beautiful animal.

There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her."

- Ellen DeGeneres, comedian.

[Michaelangelica]

"This we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth.

All things are connected like blood that unites us all.

Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it.

Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself."

 

- Chief Seattle, Native American.

[Turtle]

The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. ~Pablo Picasso

[Turtle]

Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad; hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us. ~ John Updike

[Turtle]

I still believe in Hope - mostly because there's no such place as Fingers Crossed, Arkansas. ~ Molly Ivins

[Michaelangelica]

"The loss of genetic diversity silent, rapid, inexorable is leading us to a rendezvous with extinction,

to the doorstep of hunger on a scale we refuse to imagine."

- Kenny Ausubel, author of Seed to Seed.

[Turtle]

We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read. ~ Abraham Lincoln

[Turtle]

There is no month like a snow month.~ Beatrix Terranna Goodwon

[Michaelangelica]

"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little."

- Sir Edmund Burke