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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 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
mother father book
I played Little League for one year. That was it. Then my mother realized I liked books and threatened my father. I owe her forever for that. Brad Meltzer
power vision should
If we are true, if we can love, if we have vision, if we can have courage, we can, we should, we ought to, we will... Ben Okri
powerful thinking views
From a purely entertainment point of view, to create a movie with a female lead that is empowered with her own sexuality I think is a really powerful thing. Ashton Kutcher
power hatred idealism-and-realism
Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power. Bertrand Russell
power
The depositary of power is always unpopular. Benjamin Disraeli
powerful years cds
I wish I could have 25,000 years of my personal family history documented in a very powerful computer or a CD-ROM that I could just pop in and my computer would never crash Brendan Fraser
powerful science animal
Science and vivisection make no appeal to a theological idea, much less a political one. You can argue with a theologian or a politician, but doctors are sacrosanct. They know; you do not. Science has its mystique much more powerful than any religion active today. Brenda Ueland
power
Rights are in the power of the people. Ken Starr
powerful passion men
Of all the passions that inspire a man in a battle, none, we have to admit, is so powerful and so constant as the longing for honor and reknown. Carl von Clausewitz
powerful intelligence literature
It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle. Bryant H. McGill
talking
This is something we need to do a lot more talking about. Mel Kohn
talking listening roles
We should all know this: that listening, not talking, is the gifted and great role, and the imaginative role. Brenda Ueland
talking people different-opinions
No matter what it is, if you get 10 people in the business talking about something, you get 10 different opinions, but you know, they're amazingly well informed. James Woods
talking justice development
Peace, development, and justice are all connected to each other. We cannot talk about economic development without talking about peace. How can we expect economic development in a battlefield? Aung San Suu Kyi
talking bird waiting
The virus in the movie 'Contagion' is based on the bird flu which came out of nowhere back in 2008. Everyone thought it was going to change the way we live and it just faded away. Wait a minute, I'm talking about President Obama. Craig Ferguson
talking asking want
Whatever the press is talking about, they want to keep talking about it. So instead of asking yourself, 'How can I get them to start talking about me?', figure out a way to get yourself involved in what they're already talking about. Brian Chesky
talking long guy
If a guy's talking to you at a club and you're having a long conversation, and then one of your friends comes up and he automatically devotes his attention to her, that's always a sign to look for. They're not always just doing it 'cause they're being 'friendly.' They want to look for somebody new. Brody Jenner
talking win
There's no win for us in talking about this. James Hansen
talking goes-on needs
I wanted her to to go on talking and understand without me saying anything. I wanted her to love me enough to leave him, to pack us up and take us away from him, to kill him if need be. (107) Dorothy Allison
taught women-bashing men-bashing
There goes a woman who knows all the things that can be taught and none of the things that cannot be taught. Coco Chanel
taught students medical
A schoolchild should be taught grammar—for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy. E. B. White
taught-us study one-thing
If there's one thing that a study of history has taught us, it is that things can always get worse. Neil Gaiman
taught virtue
Is virtue something that can be taught? Plato
taught-us mind paper
In my schoolboy days I had no aversion to slavery. I was not aware there was anything wrong about it. No-one arraigned it in my hearing; the local papers said nothing against it; the local pulpit taught us that God approved it, that it was a holy thing, and that the doubter need only look in the Bible if he wished to settle his mind. Mark Twain
taught team winning
She taught me that winning as a team is more important than winning as an individual. It's all about the team. Kelsey Jakupcin
taught-us agency way
God gave us our agency. He taught us a way. He showed us what to do. But he gave us our agency and left us free to act as we choose to do. Gordon B. Hinckley
taught action humane
Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane. Howard Zinn
taught-us evil long
[About Eichmann:] It was as though in those last minutes he was summing up the lesson that this long course in human wickedness had taught us - the lesson of the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of evil. Hannah Arendt