Edwin H. Friedman Quotes
The great lesson here for all imaginatively gridlocked systems is that the acceptance and even cherishing of uncertainty is critical to keeping the human mind from voyaging into the delusion of omniscience.
Edwin H. Friedman
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I rarely cook traditional risotto, but I love other grains cooked similarly - barley, spelt or split wheat. I find they have more character than rice and absorb other flavours more wholeheartedly.
Yotam Ottolenghi
I made a lot of movies that people loved when I was a kid, but I didn't have any real relationship to them.
Gaby Hoffmann
But I really love music, and having a creative outlet is really the best thing you can do for yourself.
Edie Brickell
Ours has been a special relationship for a long time and I'm really happy about coming back and playing.
B. R. Hayden
Do you have no sense of self-preservation?
Nalini Singh
The right constitutions, three in number- kingship, aristocracy, and polity- and the deviations from these, likewise three in number - tyranny from kingship, oligarchy from aristocracy, democracy from polity.
Aristotle
The table is the only place where we do not get weary during the first hour.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
The purpose of the University of Washington cannot be to produce black lawyers for blacks, Polish lawyers for Poles, Jewish lawyers for Jews, Irish lawyers for Irish. It should be to produce good lawyers for Americans, and not to place First Amendment barriers against anyone.
William O. Douglas
The best lesson which we get from the tragedy of Karbala is that Husain and his companions were rigid believers in God. They illustrated that the numerical superiority does not count when it comes to the truth and the falsehood. The victory of Husain, despite his minority, marvels me!
Thomas Carlyle
Set yourself earnestly to discover what you are made to do, and then give yourself passionately to the doing of it.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time; enjoying one moment at a time; accepting hardships as the pathway to peace; taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it; trusting that He will make all things right if I surrender to His Will; that I may be reasonably happy in this life and supremely happy with Him forever in the next. Amen.
Reinhold Niebuhr
I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
T. C. Boyle
