Clouds Like Cotton Balls Quotes

#1. We have come to see that just as the child must learn to love wisely, so he must learn to hate expeditiously, to turn destructive tendencies away from himself toward enemies that actually threaten him rather than toward the friendly and the defenseless, the more usual victims of destructive energy.

Karl A. Menninger

#2. There were angry clouds building up behind the moutains, black-gray clouds, great clumps of them colored just like cotton balls after Aunt Ruth cleaned off her eye makeup from a big night out, all gunky with mascara and eye shadow. (p 378)

Emily M. Danforth

#3. I was glad to be tenderly remembered, to be gently pitied, not to be quite forgotten.

Charles Dickens

#4. It is not the logical part of thinking that changes emotions but the perceptual part. If we see something differently, our emotions may alter with the altered perception. (p64)

Edward De Bono

#5. This sort of, arrogant individualism which imagines each new generation can somehow create the world afresh.

Helen Fielding

#6. I had an enormous complex about my looks. I thought I was ugly and I was afraid nobody would marry me.

Fred Zinnemann

#7. A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan