“Medicine, which I wouldn't be without, has also been a force for... less good. For example, if you look at our mishandling of the immune system, using antibiotics in children and avoiding infection, we've certainly increased the risk of asthma.”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 14 of 303
“A healthy human environment is one in which we try to make sense of our limits, of the accidents that can always befall us and the passage of time which inexorably changes us.”
“As Freud has shown, blunders are not the merest chance. They are the result of suppressed desires and conflicts. They are ripples on the surface of life, produced by unsuspected springs. And these may be very deep - as deep as the soul itself. The blunder may amount to the opening of a destiny.”
“and a fact is the most stubborn thing in the world.”
“It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.”
“My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That's my mantra.”
“Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.”
“I do not dislike but I certainly have no especial respect or admiration for and no trust in, the typical big moneyed men of my country. I do not regard them as furnishing sound opinion as respects either foreign or domestic business.”
“People have been modeling their lives after films for years, but the medium is somehow unsuited to moral lessons, cautionary tales or polemics of any kind.”
“Jekyll had more than a father's interest; Hyde had more than a son's indifference.”
“A lot of people that buy vinyl today don’t realise that they’re listening to CD masters on vinyl and that’s because the record companies have figured out that people want vinyl, And they're only making CD masters in digital, so all the new products that come out on vinyl are actually CDs on vinyl, which is really nothing but a fashion statement.”
“He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarize it and who caricature every cause they serve, however sincerely.”
“It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.”
“I'm in the retail business, not the circus business.”
“I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. I may credit the seductive influence of an old vintage upon the narrator for the beginning of it, and my own skeptical incredulity during the days that followed for the balance of the strange tale.”
“There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.”
“I think so, Silence of the Lambs was a great, suspenseful thriller and I would expect Red Dragon to be similar. And I think it's very character driven.”
“I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.”
“I'm never a reliable narrator, unbiased or objective.”
“I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't.”