Bessel van der Kolk Quotes

Anyone who has come into contact with extreme pain, suffering or death has no trouble understanding Greek drama.

Bessel van der Kolk

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• You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Guy
  • Know
  • Kind

• I'm not a sun person.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Person
  • Sun

• I live in Las Vegas with my family, and I never realized what my parents would go through to get me to a five-minute audition.

  

  Adam Hicks
  • Live
  • Family
  • Parents

• The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Desire
  • Destruction
  • Risks

• At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave,' you were a racist. You have to be very careful about what you say. I do have particular views and opinions that most of this town doesn't share, but it's not like I'm a fascist or a racist. There's nothing like that in my history.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • History
  • Vote
  • Opinions

• I think it was absolutely a mistake for President Obama and Harry Reid to force a government shutdown.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Think
  • Government
  • Mistake

• I like heels and make-up.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Up
  • Like
  • Makeup

• I can't design anything unless I'm excited by it, meaning I have an urge to wear it.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Design
  • Meaning
  • Excited

• It's no secret that the media has fragmented in recent years, that audiences have been cut into slivers, and that more and more people get their news from ever narrower outlets.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • People
  • Media
  • News

• I can't take on all the worries of the world, you know. I can only talk about being gay and being an actor. I'll have to leave those other battles to somebody else.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • World
  • Know
  • Gay

• I think quotes are very dangerous things.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Think
  • Dangerous
  • Very

• The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Power
  • Control
  • Government

• Only as far as the masters of the world have called in nature to their aid, can they reach the height of magnificence. This is the meaning of their hanging-gardens, villas, garden-houses, islands, parks, and preserves.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • World
  • Nature
  • Garden

• It's not that other countries steal jobs from you guys. It's your strategy. Distribute the money and things in a proper way.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Money
  • You
  • Strategy

• My retail partners, they are my brand ambassadors. They're the ones who are selling the shoes to women.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Women
  • Shoes
  • Brand

• True thusness is without defiling thought; it cannot be known through conception and thought.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • True

• All through graduate school, instead of having a television I read murder mysteries: Hammett, Chandler, Ruth Rendell, P. D. James.

  

  Donna Leon
  • School

• Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They're keeping up with their friends and family, but they're also building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is their brand. They're connecting with the audience that they want to connect to. It's almost a disadvantage if you're not on it now.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • People
  • Up
  • Family

• Once a fight has started, if you get involved in thinking about what to do, you will be cut down by your opponent with the very next blow.

  

  Yagyu Munenori
  • Thinking
  • Fighting
  • Cutting

• The sense of war, the extraordinary bravery of the Allied armies, the numbers, the losses, the real suffering that disappears in time and commemorative oratory, are not marked out in any red guidebook of the emotions, but they are present if you look.

  

  John Vinocur
  • Time
  • Real
  • War

• Be wise as thou art cruel, do not press My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain: Lest sorrow lend me words and words express, The manner of my pity-wanting pain.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Art
  • Pain
  • Wise

• I'd like to do something with Michael Buble, Harry Connick Jr., Tim McGraw, Justin Timberlake, and Gwen Stefani.

  

  Usher
  • Like
  • Something
  • Michael

• What I try with my own stuff is to work the poem to a slow climax through a series of quiet painful dissonances.

  

  Kenneth Rexroth
  • Work

• Anyone who has come into contact with extreme pain, suffering or death has no trouble understanding Greek drama.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Pain
  • Suffering
  • Drama