Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
During my childhood, Washington was a segregated city, and I lived in the midst of a poor black neighborhood. Life on the streets was often perilous. Indoor reading was my refuge, and twice a week, I made the hazardous bicycle trek to the central library at Seventh and K streets to stock up on supplies.
Irvin D. Yalom
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It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter.
Samuel Beckett
I remember immediately - immediately - feeling like, 'I don't want to play 'We Are Young' when I'm 35. I don't want to be defined by this.'
Jack Antonoff
Fun.
Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
Abu Bakar Bashir
People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
Daniel A. D'Aniello
What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.
Hans Blix
The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.
Van Wyck Brooks
I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
Lead yourself, lead your superiors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else is trivia.
Dee Hock
The saints, many of them women, warred with themselves as well as God. The body has its own animal urges, just as there are attractions and repulsions in sex that modern liberalism cannot face.
Camille Paglia
If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.
Jack Kevorkian
Write. No amount of self-inflicted misery, altered states, black pullovers or being publicly obnoxious will ever add up to your being a writer. Writers write. On you go.
Alison Louise Kennedy
During my childhood, Washington was a segregated city, and I lived in the midst of a poor black neighborhood. Life on the streets was often perilous. Indoor reading was my refuge, and twice a week, I made the hazardous bicycle trek to the central library at Seventh and K streets to stock up on supplies.
Irvin D. Yalom