Bernie Siegel Quotes
Part of my evolution has been to learn how painful most people's childhoods are. They grow up not liking themselves, not loving themselves. Ask people if they were lovable the minute they were born, and watch them sit back and have to think about it. One lady said, 'I suppose so.' That's painful.
Quotes to Explore
-
What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
-
Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
-
A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
-
People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
-
The great sin was adopting the 21st Century's Socialism, something that not even its founder, Ditrich knows exactly what it is, though he says it is under construction.
-
A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
-
Public humiliation comes to us all, and never so surely as when we're just a little bit pleased with ourselves and feel, just for once, that everything is going our way.
-
'Hannity' had a a guy on that said, 'I fathered 20 kids by 14 mothers.' That is s cultural issue which has demeaned our society and has caused our society dearly in terms of imprisonment. Who's going to be the fathers to those children? Who's going to pay child support?
-
After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
-
There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
-
We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor.
-
Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
-
A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.
-
I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.
-
As long as I love Beauty I am young.
-
I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.
-
Watching 'Girls' has just given me renewed courage.
-
Watching game film motivates me a lot. It shows me what I need to work on and determines the specific workouts I do.
-
We're constantly having to go head-to-head with the Bernie Madoffs of the world who just want more and more money.
-
June 10, 2002, the day John Ashcroft announced the arrest of Jose Padilla, marked a low point in Ashcroft's career as Attorney General.
-
What I've discovered and try to integrate into my show is when you're up there, and you are loud and more visible, you're setting a tone for how people can behave and how they can feel comfortable behaving.
-
People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.
-
Part of my evolution has been to learn how painful most people's childhoods are. They grow up not liking themselves, not loving themselves. Ask people if they were lovable the minute they were born, and watch them sit back and have to think about it. One lady said, 'I suppose so.' That's painful.
