Quotes 161 till 180 of 181.
-
The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'
-
The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't.
-
The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't.
-
The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.
-
The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and were not permitted to defend themselves.
-
The results of any traumatic experience, such as abuse, can only be resolved by experiencing, articulating, and judging every facet of the original experience within a process of careful therapeutic disclosure.
-
The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.
-
The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.
-
The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a work of primitive art, housed in a magical color; the incarnation of civilized, anti-heathenism, and the fruit of a triumphing idea.
-
The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal.
-
The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.
-
The true color of life is the color of the body, the color of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest color of the unpublished blood.
-
There are people who have benefited from therapy without being confronted with the past at all.
-
There are thousands of Palestinians in prison virtually for no reason.
-
There can be no intelligent control of the lead danger in industry unless it is based on the principle of keeping the air clear from dust and fumes.
-
Those children who are beaten will in turn give beatings, those who are intimidated will be intimidating, those who are humiliated will impose humiliation, and those whose souls are murdered will murder.
-
Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.
-
To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.
-
Today I should not be identified with any kind of regressive therapy.
All alice-in-wonderland famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 9)
