Famous Quotes & Sayings

Laura Davies

Many survivors insist they're not courageous: 'If I were courageous I would have stopped the abuse.' 'If I were courageous, I wouldn't be scared'...Most of us have it mixed up. You don't start with courage and then face fear. You become courageous because you face your fear.

Eric Idle

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.

Jodi Picoult

They don't like the thought of someone else making demands on the person whom they see as belonging entirely to them.

Leslie Morgan Steiner

I did not know that the first step in any domestic violence relationship is to seduce and charm the victim. I also did not know that the second step is to isolate the victim. The next step in the domestic violence pattern is to introduce the threat of violence and see how she reacts. We victims know something you [non-victims] usually don't. It's incredibly dangerous to leave an abuser, because the final step in the domestic violence pattern is to 'kill her'. Over 70% of domestic violence murders happens after the victim has ended the relationship.

Lewis Carroll

...those serpents! There's no pleasing them!

Julie Johnston

The time when domestic violence is the most lethal is when the person is trying to leave the situation.

Sidney Blumenthal

Ken Starr's prosecutors demanded to know what I had told reporters and what reporters had told me about Ken Starr's prosecutors. If they think they have intimidated me they have failed. And if any journalist here or elsewhere wants to talk to me, I'll be glad to talk to you.

Tom Baker

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Carl Herrman

What we would like is that people will demand more. We're hoping to work together again.

Bjorn Hanson

What we've seen is demand growing at three and a half to four and a half percent in some recent years. This year it will only grow about two and a half percent.

Joe Mauer

Having the first year of going through that and getting to know these guys, that's a lot of information, ... It's not only a physical demand on you, but mentally as well.

Keith Tkachuk

He's a competitor, I'll tell you that much. He wants to win; he's been with the Rangers and he demands a lot.

Dennis George

It is all symptomatic of the pursuit of the demands of the Washington consensus.

Mariella Frostrup

I have had demanding jobs since I was 18 years old. I have had two sick days in all my working life.

Marty Booker

I don't know anything about the diva thing. To play receiver in this league, sometimes you have to be demanding and selfish.

Walter Salles

There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.

Tupac Shakur

I am a hard person to love but when I love, I love really hard.

Robert Redford

You’re never going to be the same person you are right now.

Sarah Paulson

I am a person who is not mated.

Rick Warren

There is nothing God won't do for the person totally absorbed with pleasing him.

Robert K. Greenleaf

The work exists for the person as much as the person exists for the work.

Keke Palmer

I've always been who I've been. I've always been this person.

Jodi Picoult

How far can a person go... and still live with himself.

John Green

Because no one thought she was a person, she had no one to really talk to.