funny personality quotes
Without cultural sanction, most or all our religious beliefs and rituals would fall into the domain of mental disturbance. ~John F. Schumaker, Corruption of Reality, Unified Theory of Religion, Hypnosis and Psychotherapy
Rainbows apologize for angry skies. ~Sylvia Voirol
Nurses are the heart of healthcare. ~Donna Wilk Cardillo
Adam blamed Eve, Eve blamed the serpent and the serpent didn't have a leg to stand on. ~Author Unknown
We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within. ~Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man
A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. ~Leonard Louis Levinson
Behavioral psychology is the science of pulling habits out of rats. ~Douglas Busch
What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains. ~Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire, 1947
There is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims
Nurses can take the pressure. ~Author Unknown
Those moments before a poem comes, when the heightened awareness comes over you, and you realize a poem is buried there somewhere, you prepare yourself. I run around, you know, kind of skipping around the house. It's as though I could fly, almost, and I get very tense before I've told the truth - hard. Then I sit down at the desk and get going with it. ~Anne Sexton
Sometimes I wish I had a terrible childhood, so that at least I'd have an excuse. ~Jimmy Fallon
No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half-thought of it ourselves. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Pregnancy is a disease from which you recover in 18 years and 9 months. ~Carrie Latet
Waste not the smallest thing created, for grains of sand make mountains, and atomies infinity. Waste not the smallest time in imbecile infirmity, for well thou knowest that seconds form eternity. ~E. Knight
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread. ~Josh Billings
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me. ~Edith Sodergran
Belief in God? An afterlife? I believe in rock: this apodictic rock beneath my feet. ~Edward Abbey
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. ~William Arthur Ward
Prayer is exhaling the spirit of man and inhaling the spirit of God. ~Edwin Keith
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