Bessel van der Kolk Quotes

To this day, after twenty years and four subsequent revisions, the DSM and the entire system based on it fail victims of child abuse and neglect—just as they ignored the plight of veterans before PTSD was introduced back in 1980.

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• The best managers out there at the moment are Pep Guardiola and Jose Mourinho but they are at other clubs - Real Madrid and Barcelona.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Real
  • Best
  • Moment

• I couldn't kill a fly.

  

  Vera Miles
  • Fly

• I know that my tendency is to be linear, and I'm trying to find ways to subvert that. And so in 'Bellocq's Ophelia' my device for subverting it was to tell the story and then to tell it again; it always circles back to this one moment, and it's not linear, but it's round in that way, and much of 'Native Guard' is like that.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Trying
  • Story
  • Moment

• I understand that the end does not justify the means. And this should be a lasting value for democracy.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • Value
  • Democracy
  • End

• My first wedding was 15 people at our condo. The second was maybe about a hundred people at this fabulous casino. And you know what? I have almost no pictures of the second one, because I put disposable cameras on the tables, because everyone said, "The best pictures are the most candid! The best pictures are the ones people just take!" So, I put disposable cameras on the tables, and guess what? There were so many kids there that those cameras were stomped on. I had so many pictures of the floor, of people's eyes, of someone's finger.

  

  Viola Davis
  • People
  • Kids
  • Eye

• Whatever can be useful to those starving millions is beautiful to my mind.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Useful
  • My Mind
  • Starving

• Jesus never uttered a loftier or a grander truth than when he said that wisdom cometh out of the mouths of babes.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Wisdom
  • Jesus

• Yes, and because we grow old we become more and more the stuff our forbears put into us. I can feel his savagery strengthen in me. We think we are so individual and so misunderstood when we are young; but the nature our strain of blood carries is inside there, waiting, like our skeleton.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Thinking
  • Waiting
  • Individual

• Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Bound
  • Tape
  • Skewered

• Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it's to have any meaning in this world - and stop being its apologist.

  

  Bono U2
  • Distance
  • Conscience
  • Apologist

• I think more people need to make out.

  

  Josh Homme Queens of the Stone Age
  • People
  • Need
  • I Think

• Cocaine eyes won't hide your face.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Eyes
  • Face

• Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Dominion

• We strive for error-free medicine in a world that is sometimes all too human.

  

  Michael C. Burgess
  • Sometimes
  • Humans
  • Medicine

• When you play a character that exists or existed, there's a stronger responsibility that you have. You owe that person and then you owe the family, you owe history, you owe the victims, the victims' families.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Character
  • Play
  • Responsibility

• O, beautiful and grand, My own, my native land! Of thee I boast: Great empire of the west, The dearest and the best, Made up of all the rest, I love thee most.

  

  Abraham Coles
  • Best
  • Land
  • Empire

• Education is vital to discern between knowledge and learning.

  

  Bulleh Shah
  • Knowledge
  • Education
  • Learning

• To this day, after twenty years and four subsequent revisions, the DSM and the entire system based on it fail victims of child abuse and neglect—just as they ignored the plight of veterans before PTSD was introduced back in 1980.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Victims
  • Veterans
  • Revisions