To sense when a teenager needs understanding and when misunderstanding is a difficult and delicate task. The sad truth is that no… — Haim Ginott Copy Share Image
As a writer, I never paid much attention to the length of titles. I've just wanted them to communicate the emotional overtones… — Jacob Bannon Copy Share Image
There are good people, who are in politics - in both parties - who hold this at arm's length, because if they… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
What the government has to do, if it wants to govern for any length of time, is it must appeal primarily to… — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
Instead, our system of "corrections" is about arm's-length revenge and retribution, all day and all night. Then its overseers wonder why people… — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
Altogether, the task of estimating the length of human life is beyond our capacity, for directly we say that it is ages… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
My parents were working in a hospital in Memphis. But I didn't live there for any length of time that I remember.… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
The natural alone is permanent. Fantastic idols may be worshipped for a while; but at length they are overturned by the continual… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
There are few of us that are not rather ashamed of our sins and follies as we look out on the blessed… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Let me tell you something, last night in the debate, during one of the breaks, two of the breaks, Donald Trump went… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
neither poems nor prose just a length of rope just the wet earth -- that's the way home. neither vodka nor bread… — Tadeusz Borowski Copy Share Image
Loving oneself isn't hard, when you understand who and what 'yourself' is. It has nothing to do with the shape of your… — Phylicia Rashad Copy Share Image
Several sets of arms would embrace me. But in the end, the only person I truly want to comfort me is Haymitch,… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Hither rolls the storm of heat; I feel its finer billows beat Like a sea which me infolds; Heat with viewless fingers… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Unless you're fond of hollering you don't make great conversations on a running cycle. Instead you spend your time being aware of… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Just as experience dictates to the ballet teacher the length of time necessary to train his students, so the horse, too, needs… — Alois Podhajsky Copy Share Image
In systemic searches for embryonic lethal mutants of Drosophila melanogaster we have identified 15 loci which when mutated alter the segmental patterns… — Christiane Nusslein-Volhard Copy Share Image
The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
Franny has the measles, for one thing. Incidentally, did you hear her last week? She went on at beautiful length about how… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every ending is arbitrary, because the end is where you write The end. A period, a dot of punctuation, a point of… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The great age of the earth will appear greater to man when he understands the origin of living organisms and the reasons… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Copy Share Image
I go to great lengths to make certain situations feel right to the reader. — Sidney Sheldon Copy Share Image
Women should look at themselves and decide for themselves what color or length they should wear. — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
All expression of truth does at length take this deep ethical form. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
He drew the dagger and laid it on the table between them; a length of dragonbone and Valyrian steel, as sharp as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You can make or break an outfit by not knowing your body type - certain things work on certain people. Make sure… — AnnaLynne McCord Copy Share Image
The U.S. Constitution is less than a quarter the length of the owner's manual for a 1998 Toyota Camry, and yet it… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I used to spend hours at night, downstairs, in front of the only full-length mirror in the house, standing on the table… — Clemence Poesy Copy Share Image
Whenever I have talked to anyone at too great length, I am like a man who has drunk too much, and ashamed,… — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
I have no secrets; all of these things have been discussed at length in guitar magazines over the years but are far… — Adrian Belew Copy Share Image
The first person you should think of pleasing, in writing a book, is yourself. If you can amuse yourself for the length… — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
If you are inclined to leave your character solitary for any considerable length of time, better question yourself. Fiction is association, not… — Alfred Bertram Guthrie Copy Share Image
Works of art are not so much finished as abandoned. Perhaps poems can be perfect. A short-short story might even be perfectible,… — Bruce Holland Rogers Copy Share Image
Here lies a gentleman bold Who was so very brave He went to lengths untold, And on the brink of the grave… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But the whole vital process of the earth takes place so gradually and in periods of time which are so immense compared… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
The advent of the rubber ball was instrumental in creating an entirely different method of striking the object. The solid ball required… — Harry Vardon Copy Share Image
Simple. I got very bored and depressed, so I went and plugged myself in to its external computer feed. I talked to… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Well, then, Lord Jesus! I will creep if I cannot walk; I will take hold of Thy word. When I stumble, Thou… — Christian Scriver Copy Share Image
According to the rules of comedy, your suffering will be funny after an undetermined length of time. Maybe not while you're having… — Chuck Lorre Copy Share Image
