Linzi Sheldon Quotes

Happiness is estentially a state of going somewhere wholeheartedly. ~ W.H. Sheldon

The therapist can interpret, advise, provide the emotional acceptance and support that nurtures personal growth, and above all, he can listen. I do not mean that he can simply hear the other, but that he will listen actively and purposefully, responding with the instrument of his trade, that is, with the personal vulnerability of his own trembling self. This listening is that which will facilitate the patient's telling of his tale, the telling that can set him free. (5) ~ Sheldon B. Kopp

When Rhode Island Senator Claiborne Pell first proposed the grants that now bear his name, he envisioned a way to help students attend our country's wonderful colleges and universities, so they could share in the American Dream. ~ Sheldon Whitehouse

Narragansett Bay waters are getting warmer
4 degrees Fahrenheit warmer in the winter since the 1960s. ~ Sheldon Whitehouse

Each person's only hope for improving his lot rests on recognizing the true nature of his or her basic personality, surrendering to it, and becoming who he or she really is. ~ Sheldon B. Kopp

I had always served beauty. Davy and I together had loved beauty. Now, maybe, I was worshipping beauty in the Christian God while Davy was worshipping God. There may be danger in the love of beauty, though it seems treason to say it. Perhaps it can be a snare. ~ Sheldon Vanauken

Every man is a prisoner, and the greatest irony of all is to be the prisoner of another man. ~ Sidney Sheldon

I call them the Sons of Anarchy Muhammad WilkerSON, Damon HarriSON, Sheldon RichardSON ~ Jon Gruden

Freedom is never more in peril than when politicians feel the pressure to 'do something.' ~ Sheldon Richman

Our Christianity loves its ease and comfort too well to take up anything so rough and heavy as a cross. And ~ Charles M. Sheldon

For those who wish to stay and work in computer science or technology, fields badly in need of their services, let's roll out the welcome mat. ~ Sheldon Adelson

How strange that we cannot love time. It spoils our loveliest moments. Nothing quite comes up to expectations because of it. We alone: animals, so far as we can see, are unaware of time, untroubled. Time is their natural environment. Why do we sense that it is not ours? ~ Sheldon Vanauken

Sometimes life seems like a poorly designed cage within which man has been sentenced to be free. ~ Sheldon B. Kopp

I'm a woman. I have a right to change my mind. ~ Sidney Sheldon

For me, businesses are like buses. You stand on a corner and you don't like where the first bus is going? Wait ten minutes and take another. Don't like that one? They'll just keep coming. There's no end to buses or businesses. ~ Sheldon Adelson

In the end, each of us is alone, but in the meantime, we must all huddle together to give one another comfort and warmth. ~ Sidney Sheldon

They had lied. Time was not a friend that healed all wounds ;it was the enemy that ravaged and murdered youth. ~ Sidney Sheldon

Sheldon Kopp, the author and psychologist, wrote, There are no great men. If you have a hero, look again: you have diminished yourself in some way. ~ Jim Bouton

When we first fell in love in the dead of winter, we said, "If we aren't more in love in lilactime, we shall be finished." But we were more in love: for love must grow or die. ~ Sheldon Vanauken

Is Reading Doomsday Conspiracy!!!!!! ~ Sidney Sheldon

I have long trusted dreams as prophetic visions. I do not mean that they foretell the future, only that they illuminate the present, when my eyes are closed, so that I may see clearly. ~ Sheldon B. Kopp

This is a story about understanding overcoming compulsion, love overcoming revulsion; and oneness overcoming abuse. About the rare sort of kind-geniality, and brave-morality; which we all possess but seldom use.

A story about detractors who will be defeated, challenges which will be completed; and principles which will be proclaimed. About acts of persecution, and threats of execution; which will all be constrained.

This is the beginning of Alfred Freeman's story, the beginning of a life full of glory; and the beginning of Alfred himself. Because Alfred is being born, in his human form; with peaceful-eyes and perfect-health. ~ Joss Sheldon

A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God. ~ Sidney Sheldon

I'm not in business to make money for the other guy. I'm in business to make money for myself. ~ Sheldon Adelson

Americans live under the delusion that enterprise here is both private and free. It may be nominally private, but it's anything but free. Unfortunately, most people don't know what freedom is. So they are unfazed when they hear that before you can do anything of a commercial nature, you need government permission. ~ Sheldon Richman

Between the probable and proved there yawns
A gap. Afraid to jump, we stand absurd,
Then see behind us sink the ground and, worse,
Our very standpoint crumbling. Desperate dawns
Our only hope: to leap into the Word
That opens up the shuttered universe. ~ Sheldon Vanauken

Crises marked by anxiety, doubt, and despair have always been those periods of personal unrest that occur at the times when a man is sufficiently unsettled to have an opportunity for personal growth. We must always see our own feelings of uneasiness as being our chance for making the growth choice rather than the fear choice. ~ Sheldon B. Kopp

When counting on learning from innovation, there are great successes but also failures. The Wright Brothers invented the aircraft and started an amazing process of innovation, where we now have planes that carry 500 passengers. Along the way there were some silly looking vehicles that crashed early on. ~ Sheldon Whitehouse

I've already figured out when I'm going to be No. 2 and No. 1. ~ Sheldon Adelson

Of course, one other hypothetical alternative would have been for the child to decide that since she was fine the way she was, there must have been something terribly wrong with her parents. But children need at least the continuing hope that their parents may come to love them. To decide that these crazy parents will never love her, no matter what she does, no matter whom she becomes, would leave a child buried in a depth of despair in which she would surely suffocate and die. (86) ~ Sheldon B. Kopp