Quotes of: Sick-society Keyword

Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: I'm sick. Thurston Howell: Stay that way.

Magnolia

The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy - to heal, as it is termed.

Samuel Hahnemann

Probably millions of Americans got up this morning with a cup of coffee, a cigarette and a donut. No wonder they are sick and fouled up.

Jack LaLanne

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Khalil Gibran

I'm so sick of seeing these movies where married couples are just cuddling on the couch and caressing each other's faces.

Leslie Mann

Harvey Pekar: Wow, you're a sick woman. Joyce Brabner: Not yet, but I expect to be.

American Splendor

If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.

William James

The single most important human insight to be gained from this way of comparing societies is perhaps the realization that everything could have been different in our own society – that the way we live is only one among innumerable ways of life whic...

Small Places, Large Issues: An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology

Lefebvre summarises this march of clock-time through society and nature (1991: 95–6). He argues that the lived time experienced in and through nature has gradually disappeared. Time is no longer something that is visible and inscribed within space....

Life

Anyone who is having troubles should pray. Anyone who is happy should sing praises. Anyone who is sick should call the church's elders. They should pray for and pour oil on the person in the name of the Lord. And the prayer that is said with faith wi...

Holy Bible: King James Version

The face of "evil" is always the face of total need. A dope fiend is a man in total need of dope. Beyond a certain frequency need knows absolutely no limit or control. In the words of total need: "Wouldn't you?" Yes you would. You would lie, cheat, i...

Naked Lunch

Ferris: [to the camera, after tricking his parents into believing he's sick] Incredible, one of the worst performances of my career and they never doubted it for a second. [opens blinds to reveal a beautiful spring day] Ferris: How can I possibly be ...

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

[George takes a corner far too fast, tossing everyone in the car from side to side. Pause] Martha: Aren't you going to apologize? George: Not my fault, the road should've been straight. Martha: No, aren't you going to apologize for making Honey throw...

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

In 1995, I was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.

John E. Walker

If you steal something small you are a petty thief, but if you steal millions you are a gentleman of society.

Greek

It must be something voluntary, something self induced - like getting drunk, or talking yourself into believing some piece of foolishness because it happens to be in the Scriptures. And then look at their idea of what's normal. Believe it or not, a n...

Island

Near the end of , Eva Feder Kittay (1999, 154) writes that a fundamental aspect of a just society is related to the conditions and limits of mothering. In a just society, women with disabilities can mother because there is adequate emotional and mate...

Disability and Mothering: Liminal Spaces of Embodied Knowledge

...neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

What better way to oppose the monopolisation of truth and meaning than to go in search of their foundations within one’s own psyche?

Entheogens, Society and Law

All things being equal, he preferred to do business with people who were sane.

Burning Lamp (Arcane Society, #8)

Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his ...

B. R. Ambedkar