Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
two critical aspects of the adaptive response to threat that is basic to human survival.
Bessel van der Kolk
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One is actually the democracy here, you know, people are, people assume that this election means that there is democracy in Pakistan. There is no democracy.
Imran Khan
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
H. L. Mencken
Some of them, in accepting the proposed plan of government, coupled their acceptance with a recommendation of various additions to the Constitution, which they deemed essential to the preservation of the rights of the States, or of the People.
Caleb Cushing
Music is such a healing thing, no matter who you are.
Kate Voegele
The 1980s will seem like a walk in the park when compared to new global challenges, where annual productivity increases of 6% may not be enough. A combination of software, brains, and running harder will be needed to bring that percentage up to 8% or 9%.
Jack Welch
Let me say something else about this generation. As Commander-in-Chief, I’m pretty tired of some folks trash-talking America’s military and troops.
Barack Obama
Experience teaches only the teachable…
Aldous Huxley
The function which the wing performs against the air when the air is motionless is the same as that of the air moved against the wings when these are without motion.
Leonardo da Vinci
Apollo is the greatest adventure of all humankind, and it needs to be recorded in every way possible for future generations in books, in movies and on television. … I’m an artist. That’s the way I care about things. Maybe 200 years from now, someone will say, 'I’m glad he did that.'
Alan Bean
Falling in love is awesome, but I'm never drawn to happy songs per se, so whenever you sit down to write a heartbreak song and you're happily in love, it's like, 'OK, now I have to go back to a sad place to get something good.'
Miranda Lambert
External beauty is a bizarre thing to me.
Douglas Booth
If I say I'm the best actor for the part, I mean it and I'm not kidding.
James Woods
My son is getting close to the age that I remember watching Scrooge, and as he loves to be scared, I can't wait to start my favorite holiday tradition all over again with him.
Molly O'Keefe
Even there, in the mines, underground, I may find a human heart in another convict and murderer by my side, and I may make friends with him, for even there one may live and love and suffer. One may thaw and revive a frozen heart in that convict, one may wait upon him for years, and at last bring up from the dark depths a lofty soul, a feeling, suffering creature; one may bring forth an angel, create a hero! There are so many of them, hundreds of them, and we are all to blame for them. [...] If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
I often plagiarize from myself. I like to think of this as ecological journalism: I recycle.
Molly Ivins
When commerce with Moslems flourished, zeal for their massacre declined.
Barbara W. Tuchman
two critical aspects of the adaptive response to threat that is basic to human survival.
Bessel van der Kolk
