It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.
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.
Norman Cousins
She was so fat that she has her own postal code.
Rodney Dangerfield
Each of us needs something - food, liquor, pot, whatever - to help us survive. Dracula needs blood.
Frank Langella
All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.
The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
Lao Tzu
Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people.
George Eliot
The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the puniness of the purpose.
Another night, I dreamed I saw my father sweeping out the barn floor clean, and would not suffer the wheat to be brought in the barn. He appeared to me to be in anger.
Joanna Southcott
The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.
A full belly makes a dull brain
Benjamin Franklin
I left my marriage knowing I'd have to work. I have.
Sarah Ferguson
It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
Albert Einstein
An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood.
Aldous Huxley
Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is.
I don't actually like explaining the meanings of my songs, because I think people can take away more from it if they use their imagination.
Reeve Carney
We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.
As of 1992, they'll be called European Economic Community fries.
Steven Wright
As both a local resident and a parent with a CF-afflicted child, I'm thankful for companies like Canon, Chase and Outback who believe that giving back to the community is critical to their role as corporate citizens.
Boomer Esiason
The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives -- the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.
what I want you to be - I don't mean physically but morally: you are very well physically - is a firm fellow, a fine firm fellow, with a will of your own, with resolution. with determination. with strength of character that is not to be influenced except on good reason by anybody, or by anything. That's what I want you to be. That's what your father
Charles Dickens
I was the first person to go to university from my family.
Ellie Goulding
We have learned to live in a world of mistakes and defective products as if they were necessary to life. It is time to adopt a new philosophy in America.
Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't smile anything you can nod. Don't nod anything you can wink.
Earl Long
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
Albert Camus
Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.
Religion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of a chicken.
Lemuel K. Washburn
Do your duty today and repent tomorrow
Mark Twain
The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.
To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences.
I'm on an Isabel Marant kick. She does an amazing job of making things that are everyday-wearable but also special and a little bit different. I definitely like that she has a '70s western vibe. There's something that's very fun and vintage in what she's doing.
Jennifer Morrison
A man without a wife and babies is a menace to civilization... One bachelor is an irritation. Ten thousand bachelors are a war.
Orson Scott Card
War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.
In addition to self-awareness, imagination and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment-independent will-that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
Stephen Covey
The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That's over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it's going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years, or certainly for the rest of this decade.
Steve Jobs
You only grow when you are alone.
Paul Newman
The character ethic, which I believe to be the foundation of success, teaches that there are basic principles of effective living, and that people can only experience true success and enduring happiness as they learn and integrate these principles into their basic character.
Sandwiches are wonderful. You don't need a spoon or a plate!
Paul Lynde
Lose/Win people bury a lot of feelings. And unexpressed feelings come forth later in uglier ways. Psychosomatic illnesses often are the reincarnation of cumulative resentment, deep disappointment and disillusionment repressed by the Lose/Win mentality. Disproportionate rage or anger, overreaction to minor provocation, and cynicism are other embodiments of suppressed emotion. People who are constantly repressing, not transcending feelings toward a higher meaning find that it affects the quality of their relationships with others.
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