Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
Most teachers we work with are intrigued to learn that abused and neglected students are likely to interpret any deviation from routine as danger and that their extreme reactions usually are expressions of traumatic stress.Bessel van der Kolk
Quotes to Explore
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President Bush has a track record of making the right decisions when it comes to national security.
Randy Neugebauer -
Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
Nancy Pelosi -
My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.
Kate Bush -
I remember my mother taking me as a very little kid to the roof of our home in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to look at the bombs exploding in the distance. She didn't want us to be scared by the booms and the strange flashes of light. It was her way of helping us to understand what was happening.
Tammy Duckworth -
I'm a big fan of Katy Perry.
Zoe McLellan -
When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal.
Salman Rushdie
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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
Ida Tarbell -
In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me 'Jackie Who?'.
Jackie Chan -
I would not hesitate to vote for a white person as president if I thought he was the best person for the job.
Oliver Tambo -
Music is about the performance.
Vanessa Mae -
After becoming deaf, I realized that I'd better get an education if I was ever to do anything with my life.
I. King Jordan -
The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing.
Ram Dass
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Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.
Harriet Tubman -
A libertarian presidential candidate isn't going to win anyway, so he can afford to say that all taxation is theft, and it isn't the job of a libertarian presidential candidate to cook up new ways to commit theft.
L. Neil Smith -
I was supposed to go see Led Zeppelin when I was in, like, the 8th or 9th grade, and then John Bonham died and I never was able to. For me, music is such a huge part of my life, and I use songs like memory triggers. So a lot of my memories of being a kid and growing up are associated with different songs.
Eddie McClintock -
Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.
Carl Jung -
Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had.
Tanya Tucker -
I love palm strikes because you have a longer reach. Normally, when you give a left hook and then a right straight, you are too close for the right straight. Why? Because the hook is shorter.
Bas Rutten
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It's clear that Planned Parenthood went out of its way to paint me as some sort of a zealot - a Trojan-horse zealot who came into Komen and within 10 to 11 months had completely turned the place upside down. That's clearly not who I am, and it's not what happened.
Karen Handel -
Now, I have a kid, I have businesses to take care of, I have to travel. I have to sit down... and find a little time for me.
Nadia Comaneci -
You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.
Jacki Weaver -
I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided the best thing I could do for my kids was work and provide. Fortunately, I've been able to do that. Unfortunately, my work was on the road, and that's meant a life of one-nighters.
B. B. King -
Riches for the most part are hurtful to them that possess them.
Plutarch -
Most teachers we work with are intrigued to learn that abused and neglected students are likely to interpret any deviation from routine as danger and that their extreme reactions usually are expressions of traumatic stress.
Bessel van der Kolk