Compared to other parents, remarried parents seem more desirous of their child's approval, more alert to the child's emotional state, and more… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
Concentration is the key to economic results. No other principle of effectiveness is violated as constantly today as the basic principle of… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
ur struggle is not with some monarch named George who inherited the crown - although it often seems that way. — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
A stick or a stone only stings for a minute. A name seems to hurt forever. — Barbara Park Copy Share Image
The possibility seems to be that what we call styles, or what we call motifs, are actually categories in the unconscious. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Never once have Democrats benefited from attempts at reasonableness and compromise and accommodation. To the contrary, Bush and his team seem to… — Jim Jordan Copy Share Image
God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a… — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
Memoir is actually the most egoless genre, even though it might seem ostensibly so much ego-driven. In order for it to succeed,… — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
Train passengers may be astonished to learn how many working practices still seem rooted in the age of steam. For example, the… — Simon Calder Copy Share Image
That rock and roll, eh? That rock and roll, it just won't go away. It might hibernate from time to time, sink… — Alex Turner Copy Share Image
Why do we shave? It doesn't seem like a natural activity. There are no examples of shaving in nature. The only creature… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I travel to work on my motorcycle, so it's jeans, boots and a brown Aero leather jacket that weighs as much as… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
The heart of the matter seems to me to be the direct interaction between one's making a poem in English and a… — Robert Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The important task rarely must be done today, or even this week...But the urgent task calls for instant action...The momentary appeal of… — Charles Hummel Copy Share Image
I auditioned for so many things - cops, lawyers, doctors and things but they were like, "She just seems too sweet. I… — Christina Hendricks Copy Share Image
Although knaves win in every political struggle, although society seems to be delivered over from the hands of one set of criminals… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
. . . you did not seem to me over-fond of money. And this is the way in general with those who… — Plato Copy Share Image
Painting seems to be to the eye what dancing is to the limbs. When that has educated the frame to self-possession, to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. . .… — Coleman Dowell Copy Share Image
What I got in Sunday school ... was simply a firm conviction that the Christian faith was full of palpable absurdities, and… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“The mountains of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use. In this, if no other way, we… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
