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mother able teach
My mother told me not to listen to anyone. She had been told that she wouldn't be able to teach and she did. Archie Panjabi
mother pain doors
There was no warning, not even a knock. The door flew open, and he forgot his present aches and pains in anticipation of what lay in store. The figure that stood in the door was not that of an enemy. It was worse. It was his mother. Barbara Mertz
mother children home
Look, if you ask a child, 'Would you rather have a fulfilled mother or a stay-at-home Sylvia Plath,' they'll pick Sylvia Plath every time. But I think it's really important that children don't feel their parents' emotional lives depend on their success. Ayelet Waldman
mother children mistake
I have made so many mistakes as a mother. But the one thing that I know I do is I make sure my children know how much I love them and they are absolutely secure in that. Ayelet Waldman
mother daughter two
I have two daughters and I have done everything in my power to prevent them from assimilating, even being aware of, my idiocy about my weight. Ayelet Waldman
mother children husband
If a good mother is one who loves her child more than anyone else in the world, I am not a good mother. I am in fact a bad mother. I love my husband more than I love my children. Ayelet Waldman
mother jeans dresses
You can take the babushka off the Jewish mother and dress her up in a pair of Seven jeans and Marc Jacobs sling-backs, but she's still going to expect a passel of grandkids. Ayelet Waldman
mother children passion
The lust that drives others to enslave an empire, had become, in her limits, a passion for power over him. She had set out to break him, as if, unable to equal his value, she could surpass it by destroying it, as if the measure of his greatness would thus become the measure of hers, as if the vandal who smashed a statue were greater than the artist who had made it, as if the murderer who killed a child were greater than the mother who had given it birth. Ayn Rand
mother children doors
If you would shut your door against the children for an hour a day and say: 'Mother is working on her five-act tragedy in blank verse!' you would be surprised how they would respect you. They would probably all become playwrights. Brenda Ueland
revenge ignorance hands
Terrorism is a state of mind that on the one hand has to do with ignorance and, on the other hand, can be attributed to a feeling of desperation over the political situation, which at some point takes the form of revenge. Bashar al-Assad
revenge motivation thinking
It's not so much revenge, but I think you want to hold on to a little of that just for extra motivation. Brenden Morrow
revenge done failing
A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong. Edgar Allan Poe
revenge best-revenge improving-yourself
The best revenge is to improve yourself. Ali ibn Abi Talib
revenge people quality
I'm pretty Sicilian if I've been crossed. I don't seek revenge, but I never forget. And I make it hard to repair, which is not a great quality because if people held me to that standard, no one would be around me - ever. Amy Adams
revenge italian people
And as the Italian proverb says, 'Revenge is the dish which people of taste prefer to eat cold.' Robert Hamer
revenge had-enough enough-time
Everyone knows revenge is a dish best served when you've had enough time to build up enough vitriol and fury. Sophie Kinsella
revenge stories alive
In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead. Uwe Boll
revenge war water
Most wars are not fought over shortages of resources such as food and water, but rather over conquest, revenge, and ideology. Steven Pinker
democracy leading role
role as the leading upholder of democracy and law. Madeline Albright
democracy today constitution
Today, I am an inquisitor. I shall not sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution. Barbara Jordan
democracy never-forget vote
Take it from me - every vote counts. In our Democracy, every vote has power. And never forget - that power is yours. Don't let anyone take it away or talk you into throwing it away. And let's make sure that this time every vote is counted. Al Gore
democracy elitist group motions
Is the Philippines a real democracy or just an elitist group going through the motions of democracy? Robert Broadfoot
democracy succeed
We will ... succeed at getting a democracy established in Iraq. And I think, when we do, that will be the end of the insurgency. Dick Cheney
democracy culture world
The Western democracy of today is the forerunner of Marxism which without it would not be thinkable. It provides this world plague with the culture in which its germs can spread. Adolf Hitler
democracy burning hussein
Liberals could not be less interested in democracy when it came to taking out Saddam Hussein Now a loyal American ally [Mubarak] comes under attack and they are burning for democracy. Ann Coulter
democracy too-much monarchy
If we incline too much to democracy, we shall soon shoot into a monarchy. Alexander Hamilton
democracy form fortunes great remain rich wealth
What is the most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class. Alexis de Tocqueville