Adelyn Quotes

#1. We've hired a lovely nanny, Adelyn, from the Philippines, who shows up in the morning and looks after Bean all day.

Pamela Druckerman

#2. Those were my last words. To be listed in some book of quotations, alphabetically after Wilde:
Wilde, Oscar (of the wallpaper in his bedroom): "Either it goes, or I do."
Wilding, Adelyn (of the gum splooches on the sidewalk): "Ditto."

Roberta Pearce

#3. The illegal immigrants who have taken jobs that should go to people here legally, while over 20 percent of Americans are currently unemployed or underemployed.

Donald J. Trump

#4. Who is the Forgotten Man? He is the clean, quiet, virtuous, domestic citizen, who pays his debts and his taxes and is never heard of out of his little circle.

William Graham Sumner

#5. The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Wilson Mizner

#6. I prefer a life in which we don't take ourselves too seriously.

Carter Burwell

#7. Always remember ... How you handle obstacles will always be a key factor in determining your ability to achieve success.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#8. Beware of relationships that substitute intensity for emotional intimacy.

Adelyn Birch

#9. Selfishness is self-absorption, self-seeking behaviour that either disregards the rights and needs of others or tramples them deliberately in favour of personal gain.

Adelyn Birch

#10. If you fear that defending your boundaries is being controlling, don't worry. There is a difference between being controlling and having boundaries. Controlling people is about telling them what to do. Setting boundaries is about saying what you do or do not want to happen to you.

Adelyn Birch

#11. Many of us find it hard to set boundaries and defend them because we fear doing so will cause rejection or abandonment. We may avoid confrontations to make things easier. We may feel guilt if we say no or if we think we might hurt someone's feelings. We fear boundaries will keep us from being loved.

Adelyn Birch

#12. Abuse can take many forms. It always involves a boundary violation, although every boundary violation is not necessarily abuse.

Adelyn Birch

#13. I am a ghost to this man, I'm thinking. I am something unreal, something not quite tangible, yet still an obstacle of sorts and he nods, gets back on the phone, resumes speaking in a dialect totally alien to me.

Bret Easton Ellis

#14. In 1970, you went to school to find your husband.

Rush Limbaugh

#15. I'm pulling out, and I'm going to concentrate every ounce of time and energy over the next week working to defeat the recall because I realize now that's the only way to defeat Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Arianna Huffington

#16. We read some things in the Bible three hundred and sixty-five times and they mean nothing to us, then all of a sudden we see what God means, because in some particular we have obeyed God, and instantly His nature is opened up.

Oswald Chambers

#17. Boundaries protect the things that are of value to you. They keep you in alignment with what you have decided you want in life. That means the key to good boundaries is knowing what you want.

Adelyn Birch

#18. I tried to quash my anger and fear. If I was being set up to fail, then I would fail spectacularly.

Fran Wilde

#19. If we're highly empathetic and emotionally sensitive we're at greater risk of becoming involved with a manipulator.

Adelyn Birch