Bessel van der Kolk Quotes

Traumatic events are almost impossible to put into words.

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• I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.

  

  Kate Moss
  • You
  • Never
  • Look

• My grandma passed away at 98 1/2 and I want to live to 100. I want to be able to do what I can do even at 100.

  Gail Devers
  • Live
  • Want
  • I Can

• When the British became Christian, Christianity in no way altered their political organisation.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Political
  • Way
  • Christian

• I feel the only way I can survive is to spend a lot of time writing songs. I have to have incredible, killer songs that also are hits, or I just don't have a chance.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Chance

• I'm pretty mad at horror films for ruining my childhood.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Pretty
  • Childhood
  • Mad

• Throughout out history, when people have looked for new ways to solve their problems, and to uphold the principles of this nation, many times they have turned to political parties. They have often turned to the Democratic Party.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • People
  • History
  • Political

• Brandy is the great cause of destruction for the aborigines of America.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Great
  • America
  • Destruction

• Today our books are numberless, and one man cannot master them in a lifetime. Now that the sea-waves are dashing upon our shores, unless we keep pace with the times and acquire Western learning, we shall be left in the lurch.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Today
  • Man
  • Learning

• If of their pleasures and desires no end be found;God to their cares and fears will set no bound.What would content you? Who can tell?Ye fear so much to lose what you have gotAs if ye liked it well.Ye strive for more, as if ye liked it not.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • God
  • Fear

• At some point in my life I'd honestly hoped love would rescue me from the cold, drafty castle I lived in. But at another point, much earlier I think, I'd quietly begun to hope for nothing at all in the way of love, so as not to be disappointed. It works. It gets to be a habit.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Cold

• When I hear of anyone walking into a lab and walking out with animals, my heart sings.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Heart
  • Walking

• 'When God calls a man or woman, what they will eat, what they will use and everything they need for their journey will be provided abundantly by God.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • God
  • Journey

• The President ordains the bee to be Immortal. The President ordains.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Bee

• Once you've been with each other in a primal, shagging state, it's hard to talk about the weather.

  

  Irvine Welsh

• Into this Universe, and Why not knowing Nor Whence, like Water willy-nilly flowing; And out of it, as Wind along the Waste, I know not Whither, willy-nilly blowing.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Why
  • Water
  • Universe

• I have to admit that when I watch a movie in which there is no moral context for the violence - I find that offensive. I think that's potentially damaging to society.

  

  Dean Koontz
  • Movie
  • Society
  • Violence

• In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.

  

  Jane Smiley
  • Experience
  • Desire
  • motivation

• The author of McCarthyism was given the distinction of addressing the Republican National Convention. This strikes terror in the hearts of honest men.

  

  Emanuel Celler
  • Men
  • Author

• All books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with words.

  

  Amy Lowell
  • Words
  • Dreams
  • Books

• People do have a - people, unlike politicians, are allowed to change their minds. People are allowed to look back and say, you know what, all things considered, I don't think that was the smart move.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Moving

• Because the Second Amendment is an incomprehensible mess, because too many lobbyists have argued that it is an absolute protection of actions and items never considered at the time of our nation's founding, and because there is a clear state interest in protecting the lives of its citizens, the words must be removed from the Constitution.

  

  Kurt Eichenwald
  • Time
  • Words

• He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Words

• Stand-up is not just an American thing anymore. It's global. In some places, stand-up comedy is brand new. South Africa has only had a scene for 15 years.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Up
  • American
  • Comedy

• Traumatic events are almost impossible to put into words.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Words
  • Traumatic Events