Likes Quote by Norah Vincent Download Open image “Nobody likes to be lectured.” — Norah Vincent ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Likes Nobody
People don't listen when you lecture. No one wants to be talked down to or scolded. — Scott Thompson Copy Share Image
Nobody really likes to be lectured a lot. And, therefore, if you want to be an effective person, what you don't do is scold… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Sometimes we don't want to be lectured; we prefer to be taken on a journey. — David Farr Copy Share Image
As soon as you start preaching, nobody wants to hear you because then you're a jerk. — Neil Young Copy Share Image
Smokers, like so many of us, are mavericks when they're healthy but parasites when they're not. They trash their bodies and then expect the… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
Isn't it curious how quickly a conservative becomes a libertarian when he's caught sinning? There's a lesson in that somewhere, if only the Christian… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
The feminist establishment has made choice a woman's issue. The Christian right has made life a religious issue. Both have made loyalty crucial. If… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
The twin causes Bin Laden invokes are Islam and Arab self-determination, and armies rise to serve him. No need to convert or dogmatize. Believers… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
Private academic institutions admit the children of alumni because substantial parts of their operating budgets come from the financial contributions of alumni. — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
My gender has roots in my brain, possibly biochemical ones, living very close to the roots of my self-image... Far, far closer than my… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
Race is not the stumbling block to progress it once was, in large part because the Civil Rights Act of 1964 made it illegal… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
Practically as soon as the towers hit the ground on Sept. 11, pundits of the left like Noam Chomsky and Susan Sontag took advantage… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
Americans love a morality tale, especially one that's been taken from real life. We like facile categories of good and bad, and we like… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
People who dislike Oprah's Book Club dislike it for the same reason that they dislike Barnes & Noble. The fact that the two do… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
The candidates who get themselves elected are illusionists and prevaricators of the first order. We expect this of them. They're a reflection of us,… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
Popular culture as a whole is popular, but in today's fragmented market it's a jostle of competing unpopular popular cultures. As the critic Stanley… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
For war to man, like childbirth to women, is simplifying in its emotions and activities. All the real problems of life can be put… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
When a person says only what others love to hear, he is largely liked; but if he loves to say what he likes only,… — Anuj Copy Share Image
In general, librarians enjoyed special requests. A reference librarian is someone who likes the chase. When librarians read for pleasure, they often pick a… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
We had a farewell dinner for some of my senior staff, and generally everybody likes to talk about how cool I was. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The policeman on the beat or in the patrol car makes more decisions and exercises broader discretion affecting the daily lives of people every… — Warren E. Burger Copy Share Image
I went through a really good-looking phase from birth to 9. And then things went crazy. I don't know what happened, but between 9… — Cristin Milioti Copy Share Image
Not everyone likes the stable, gradual rise of our country. There are some who are using the democratic ideology to interfere in our internal… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Old age likes to dwell in the recollections of the past, and, mistaking, the speedy march of years, often is inclined to take the… — Lajos Kossuth Copy Share Image
A woman should always be more concerned with standing up for what is right than making sure everyone 'likes' her. — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
