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I suspect that the vast majority of people, not knowing in advance whether they will either end up in a permanently vegetative state or be diagnosed with cancer, would prefer that any resources that would be spent on PVS care be reallocated to cancer research--or some similar enterprise that has the potential to help human beings who might actually recover.
jacob m. appel— "Rational Rationing vs. Irrational Rationing", The Huffington Post (2010-06-23)
Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.
beryl bainbridge— The New York Times, March 1, 1981. [2]
A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his own propertyat the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
— Collected in Further Extracts from the Notebooks (1934).
Dada aimed to destroy the reasonable deceptions of man and recover the natural and unreasonable order.
hans arp— Quoted in: Anna Moszynska, Abstract Art, Thames and Hudson, London, 1990, p. 66
It is shocking, It is quite obvious that security of the Sri Lankan players has been hopelessly inadequate. We condemn the shooting and we hope that players like Samaraweera and Mendis are safe and will recover.
p. chidambaram— "Security of Sri Lankan players hopelessly inadequate: Chidambaram". Times of India (Times of India). 3 March 2009. Retrieved on 3 March 2009.
There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.
colette— “Wedding Day”, Earthly Paradise (1966) ed. Robert Phelps
Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great player.
alice cooper— On the game of Golf in an interview with Nick Harper in The Guardian (28 November 2003)
When faith is kneeling by his bed of death,And innocence is closing up his eyes,Now if thou wouldst, when all have given him over,From death to life thou might’st him yet recover.
Michael Drayton— Sonnet: Love's Farewell, lines 11-14.
[The Mexican revolution] was a break with the past to recover the past. We were trying to deny we had an Indian and a black and a Spanish past. The Mexican Revolution accepted all heritages. It allowed Mexico to be mestizo.
Carlos Fuentes— Quoted in Anne-Marie O'Connor, "Novelist Carlos Fuentes confronts mortality and his country's future", Los Angeles Times, 26 April 2006
This is useful knowledge. With it the blind again see, the lame walk, the ill recover, the insane become sane and the sane become saner. By its use the thousand abilities Man has sought to recover become his once more.
l. ron hubbard— On Scientology in Scientology: A History Of Man (1952)
Ina regular and constant employment the greatest result will always be gained by such a rate as allows a workman each day,or each week at the most, to recover all fatigue and recommence with an undiminished store of energy.
william stanley jevons— Chapter V, Theory of Labour, p. 176
Many of us, utterly overcome by Tamas, the dark and heavy demon of inertia, are saying nowadays that it is impossible, that India is decayed, bloodless and lifeless, too weak ever to recover; that our race is doomed to extinction. It is a foolish and idle saying. No man or nation need be weak unless he chooses, no man or nation need perish unless he deliberately chooses extinction.
sri aurobindo— 1905
Applaud us when we run, console us when we fall, cheer us when we recover.
Edmund Burke— Speech at Bristol Previous to the Election (6 September 1780).
Disunion and civil war are at hand; and yet I fear disunion and war less than compromise. We can recover from them. The free States alone, if we must go on alone, will make a glorious nation.
rutherford b. hayes— Diary (4 January 1861).
Today and over the foreseeable future,traditional capitalism throughout most of the world has been thrown on a defensive from which it is doubtful that it can never recover.
robert heilbroner— Chapter II, Part 7, The Drift Away From Capitalism, p. 94
While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have now passed the worst and with continued unity of effort we shall rapidly recover. There is one certainty of the future of a people of the resources, intelligence and character of the people of the United States that is, prosperity.
herbert hoover— Address at annual dinner of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States (1 May 1930). Hoover is sometimes misreported as having said on this occasion or another, "Prosperity is just around the corner"; reported in Paul F. Boller, Jr., and John George, They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, & Misleading Attributions (1989), p. 48.
How would your life be different if … You stopped validating your victim mentality? Let today be the day … You shake off your self-defeating drama and embrace your innate ability to recover and achieve.
steve maraboli— p. 86 (Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010))
I think that a man who has been guilty of an indictable offence ought not to have the assistance of the law to recover the profits of his crime; and that whether his agents be innocent or criminal, privy or not privy, his claim against those agents is equally inadmissible in a Court of law.
— Booke, J., Farmer v. Russell (1798), 2 Bos. & Pull. 301.
I used to pray to recover you."
— Sylvia Plath, (1932-1963), U.S. poet. Daddy (l. 14)
Wait a moment, please! Yes, we suffered a temporary defeat in battle, but by releasing our Vollständig, we were able to recover! We can still fight for Your Majesty's sake!!
— Who: BG9
— Notes: Both BG9 and Cang Du were defeated by their opponents due to unforseen circumstances. Despite both surviving without any major injuries and willing to continue fighting, Yhwach orders Haschwalth to kill them anyway.
Falwell is an important decision for free speech in this country. It continues the Court's well-established tradition of providing a high level of protection for those who comment on public affairs, and makes it extremely difficult for politicians and public figures to recover against those who comment on their actions. It also provides protection for the long-established practice of political satire.
— Lively, Donald E.; Russell L. Weaver (2006). Contemporary Supreme Court Cases: Landmark Decisions Since Roe v. Wade. Greenwood. p. 81. ISBN 9780313335143.
It would be misleading to say that Hustler v. Falwell extended the scope of First Amendment speech protections. What the Supreme Court did, essentially, was to preserve the scope that already existed, which they did by rejecting an effort by the Appeals Court to allow a public figure, absent a finding of libel, to recover on a claim of emotional distress.
— Menand, Louis (2003). American Studies. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. p. 227. ISBN 0374529000.
He said: ‘Do you ask how to recover your bees? Kill a heifer and bury its carcase in the earth, Buried it will produce what you ask of me.’ The shepherd obeyed: the beast’s putrid corpse Swarmed: one life destroyed created thousands.
— Ovid, Fasti, January 9.
The more healthy relationships a child has, the more likely he will be to recover from trauma and thrive. Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love .
bruce parry— Maia Szalavitz. The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook - What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us about Loss, Love and Healing, Basic Books, 5 December 2007), p. 230
Who that woll make ony more lette hym seke other bookis kynge Arthure or of sir Launcelot and sir Trystrams; for this was drawen by a knyght presoner, sir Thomas Malleoré, that God send him good recover.
— Sir Thomas Malory at the end of the chapter The Tale of King Arthur of his larger work, written circa 1468-1470 while held in Newgate Prison as a captured partisan of the rebellious Earl of Warwick. Reprinted in Malory Works, edited by Eugene Vinaver, 1954.
With the ripening of the fruits in Autumn the leaves begin to wither and the trees, taking up their sap from the earth through the roots, recover themselves and are restored to their former solid texture. But the strong air of winter compresses and solidifies them.
— Chapter IX, Sec. 2 (Book II)
If it had not been for his malice, forcing me to return, I would have been able to recover the whole of Outremer. Then, when I was in prison he conspired to keep me there so that he could steal my lands.
— Richard on his alleged betrayal by King Philip; Richard I - Gillingham (from primary source)
For at a congress of the Lacedaemonian allies and the other Greeks, in which Amyntas, the father of Philip, being entitled to a seat, was represented by a delegate whose vote was absolutely under his control, he joined the other Greeks in voting to help Athens to recover possession of Amphipolis. As proof of this I presented from the public records the resolution of the Greek congress and the names of those who voted.
aeschines— Aeschines, On the Embassy, 32 (Quotes)
