Child Of Alcoholic Parents Quotes

#1. People just hate the idea of losing. Any loss, even a small one, is just so terrible to contemplate that they compensate by buying insurance, including totally absurd policies like air travel.

Daniel Kahneman

#2. The first thing you should know about me is when I was three years old my mother left me and my father. And that was traumatic obviously for my father - he suffered a nervous breakdown at that time in his life.

Robert Carlyle

#3. A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

Jean De La Fontaine

#4. Therefore they who say our thoughts are not our own because they resemble the Ancients, may as well say our faces are not our own, because they are like our Fathers: And indeed it is very unreasonable, that people should expect us to be Scholars, and yet be angry to find us so.

Alexander Pope

#5. I'm not super comfortable in my skin. I have to make it work for me, and that usually amounts to making it uncomfortable for everyone else.

Aubrey Plaza

#6. Everyone's like, 'Oh, you must live in L.A., the glamorous life,' and I really don't. I'm in a small house, in Pittsburgh, in the snow.

Maddie Ziegler

#7. The avant-garde understands itself as invading unknown territory, exposing itself to the dangers of sudden, shocking encounters, conquering an as yet unoccupied future ... The avant-garde must find a direction in a landscape into which no one seems to have yet ventured.

Jurgen Habermas

#8. The Latin names of plants blur like belief.

Carol Ann Duffy

#9. If you make your decisions based on comfort, before long you will be uncomfortable.

Adrian Rogers

#10. My definition of stupid is wasting your opportunity to be yourself because I think everybody has a uniqueness and everybody's good at something.

Pink

#11. I am not interested in immortality but only in tea flavour.

Lu Tong

#12. I don't have hate in my heart. I don't hate any person, place or thing ... but I hate the Yankees.

Michael Chiklis

#13. All the French speak French - even the children. Many Americans and Britishers who visit the country never quite adjust to this, and the idea persists that the natives speak the language just to show off or be difficult.

Olivia De Havilland

#14. I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.

Aristotle.

#15. I just think it's better to have ideas. I mean, you can change an idea. Changing a belief is trickier, people die for them, people kill for them.

Rufus Wainwright