Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
To people who are reliving a trauma, nothing makes sense; they are trapped in a life-or-death situation, a state of paralyzing fear or blind rage. Mind and body are constantly aroused, as if they are in imminent danger. They startle in response to the slightest noises and are frustrated by small irritations. Their sleep is chronically disturbed, and food often loses its sensual pleasures. This in turn can trigger desperate attempts to shut those feelings down by freezing and dissociation.Bessel van der Kolk
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My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old.
Natalie Gulbis -
And I am a conservative. Sometimes conservatives forget we are supposed to conserve, to save, to be efficient. Plus our dependence on other sources of energy is causing our country to not be independent and to really be vulnerable. So this is a security issue.
Zach Wamp -
I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version.
Oliver North -
One place had a winning record that I went to, and that was Detroit. Rick Carlisle laid a foundation that gave us a chance to win a championship.
Larry Brown -
Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.
Baruch Spinoza -
Threats that could wipe out the bulk of life on earth abound. Planetary catastrophe could come in the form of a killer asteroid impact, the eruption of massive supervolcanoes, a nearby gamma ray burst that sterilizes the earth, or by human-driven environmental collapse.
Ramez Naam
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There is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don't prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition doesn't prove that Christianity tortures people. But that Christianity did torture people.
Salman Rushdie -
I've made so many changes to my records because of the way the audience has reacted at the various festivals I've played - I've taken tracks back into the studio, stripped them bare, and built them back up again to create something entirely different.
Labrinth LSD -
Every woman is a character - but people need to see I'm a regular human. It's like you wear a pink wig and you're no longer human all of sudden.
Nicki Minaj -
He got out of bed and peeped through the blinds. To the east and opposite to him gardens and an apple-orchard lay, and there in strange liquid tranquility hung the morning star, and rose, rilling into the dusk of night the first grey of dawn. The street beneath its autumn leaves was vacant, charmed, deserted.
Walter de La Mare -
Dogma can in no way limit a limitless God.
Flannery O'Connor -
We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
Angela Davis
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He said until they played Kentucky, they had been working so hard that they didn't even think about racism. They were just too busy working to try to win.
Derek Luke -
The soul is often hungrier than the body and no shop can sell it food.
Henry Ward Beecher -
I was a punk before it got its name. I had that hairstyle and purple lipstick.
Vivienne Westwood -
Intelligence is a fixed goal with variable means of achieving it.
William James -
Keep your mouth shut, and close up the doors of sight and sound, and as long as you live you will have no vexation. But open your mouth, or become inquisitive, and you will be in trouble all your life long.
Lao Tzu -
A true legacy is established over a lifetime and relates to what a human being does for others, not for himself.
Bill Courtney
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Love can be founded upon Nature only.
William Shenstone -
...there is no old age of the soul.
Saul Bellow -
A woman in show business isn't honest with herself... so how can she be honest with another woman? We are, all of us, acting every minute of the day and night.
Ida Lupino -
To people who are reliving a trauma, nothing makes sense; they are trapped in a life-or-death situation, a state of paralyzing fear or blind rage. Mind and body are constantly aroused, as if they are in imminent danger. They startle in response to the slightest noises and are frustrated by small irritations. Their sleep is chronically disturbed, and food often loses its sensual pleasures. This in turn can trigger desperate attempts to shut those feelings down by freezing and dissociation.
Bessel van der Kolk