Top 100 Judith Quotes
#1. Dance therapy provides an outlet for energy and a safe and playful environment in which many areas of conflict can be identified and worked through, and appropriate adult roles and behavior tried out.
Judith Lynne Hanna
#2. Sun lighting a child's hair. A friend's embrace. Slow dancing in a safe and quiet place. The pleasures of an ordinary life.
Judith Viorst
#3. Life was wonderful, so filled with people and activities, with love and laughter.
Judith McNaught
#4. Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.
Judith Butler
#5. You can't outwit fate by standing on the sidelines placing little sidebets about the outcome of life. either you wade in and risk everything you have to play the game or you don't play at all. and if u don't play u can't win.
Judith McNaught
#6. There is a new venue for theory, necessarily impure, where it emerges in and as the very event of cultural translation. This is not the displacement of theory by historicism, nor a simple historicization of theory that exposes the contingent limits of its more generalizable claims.
Judith Butler
#7. Perhaps the promise of phallus is always dissatisfying in some way.
Judith Butler
#8. I think when you get interested in antiques, the most frustrating thing is that books don't have enough photos. When you go to a flea market or garage sale, you see lots of things you've never seen before and you have no idea what the price is going to be or should be.
Judith Miller
#10. True healing is not physical - it is a spiritual awakening to our True Self. If art is used for that purpose then it can be quite healing as it purifies the mind of thoughts that create disease.
Judith Cornell
#11. People missed things. People didn't notice; people didn't care. People's own misperceptions made black into white, made grey into whatever they wanted it to be.
Judith Ivory
#12. If I had the pen of Moliere, I could make him comic. That is the role of art, is it not? To make monsters comic, so we can bear them, and our own cheap griefs into grand tragedy, so that others will weep with us.
Judith Merkle Riley
#13. There was no thunderbolt, no quickening of the heart, but there was a sense of recognition.A familiarity about his face..
Judith Kinghorn
#14. Insecurity, however, is a luxury on which I never economize.
Judith Thurman
#15. Freedom without rules doesn't work. And communities do not work unless they are regulated by etiquette.
Judith Martin
#16. Sometimes we do things a certain way just because that is the way we do things.
Judith Martin
#17. I believe that this world was set about for us to enjoy and to love and to experience and to have it all be, to a certain extent, unpredictable. Ever since I was a child I have believed that my life has been guided.
Judith Jamison
#19. Iris Johansen's lovers weathered the sack of city states and the vagaries of the French Revolution; Judith McNaught's heroines endured amnesia, social ostracism and misunderstandings so big they deserved their own ZIP code.
Lauren Willig
#20. Don't try to control what's outside. Be at peace with what's inside.
Judith Orloff
#21. He was afraid to pick up the baby. If he touched it, it might bond with him or something. Or he might leave fingerprints all over it.
Judith Arnold
#23. If it's against state law, it's generally considered a breach of Etiquette.
Judith Martin
#24. Royce's eyes narrowed in discouragement at the thoght of having to sing to jenny. his deep bariton voice would surely bring every hound for miles to yap and nip at his heels.
Judith McNaught
#26. I buy 1920s iridescent Scottish glass. I love the way the sun hits it every morning. You touch something and you know. To me, people should buy something they love. Buy something you'd want to come downstairs and stroke.
Judith Miller
#27. There are moments that I know I will long for even as I live them.
Judith Katzir
#28. We all have our own closets to come out of.
Judith Light
#30. A man in cahoots with a woman's sexual instinct was the devil himself, for he had the united power over her - himself and her own longing - greater than a mere man
Judith Ivory
#31. We must do more and with more urgency to empower women.
Judith Rodin
#33. In the end, leadership is not intellectual or cognitive. Leadership is emotional.
Judith M Bardwick
#34. There are not two cultures, only half-cultured individuals
Judith Merril
#35. I think it's very important for me to work on myself while I'm working on a character, and also it's important how I'm giving to and educating an audience. So I tend to go with people who are complex and substantive.
Judith Light
#36. Be sure to see that the first few pages have the reader on the edge of his seat, unable to put the book down. Most editors only have time to read a few pages before making a decision; make those pages memorable!
Judith Saxton
#37. I think that every sexual position is fundamentally comic.
Judith Butler
#39. Maybe I ought to do exactly what I told Nick I was going to do and pursue you myself."
Lauren smiled. "I have a feeling you're as jaded and cynical as he is." He looked so stung that she added teasingly, "Well,you are-but still very attractive,for all that."
"Thanks," he said dryly.
Judith McNaught
#40. The problem with our art form: it's so ephemeral, and catching performances can be so difficult ... the important thing is what happens at the moment of performance, for the people who made the effort to be there: it lives with them.
Judith Weir
#41. There was a brief moment after 9/11 when Colin Powell said we should not rush to satisfy the desire for revenge. It was a great moment, an extraordinary moment, because what he was actually asking people to do was to stay with a sense of grief, mournfulness, and vulnerability.
Judith Butler
#42. The central dynamism of Christianity, which rests precisely on a unity through variety.
Judith Herrin
#44. I don't think we find compassion. I think we become the space that compassion wants to live in.
Judith Hanson Lasater
#45. I have no more cheap morals to draw from all this death.
Judith Rascoe
#46. It isn't what you say that counts, it's what you don't say.
Judith McNaught
#47. I'm quite convinced that it's energy and humor. The two of them combined equal charm.
Judith Krantz
#48. People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.
Judith Guest
#49. ...living in Rome is either a one or a two, or a nine or ten. Not much in between. And some days it's both.
Judith Works
#50. The stress of making small talk with in-laws is called being part of a family.
Judith Martin
#51. The art of communicating is to speak with a non judging sensitivity and mean it rather than impulsively verbalizing whatever feelings arise; there's no better way to make a point.
Judith Orloff
#52. My children did not go through a stage of being rude to their parents. I'm sorry if that sounds incredible.
Judith Martin
#53. Appearing to pay attention when someone is speaking is one of the cornerstones of real social interaction.
Judith Martin
#54. Judith (sadly): A change has come over my children of late. I have tried to shut my eyes to it, but in vain. At my time of life one must face bitter facts!
Noel Coward Sir
#55. Adolescence involves our nutty-desperate-ecstatic-rash psychological efforts to come to terms with new bodies and outrageous urges.
Judith Viorst
#56. Someone once called Lincoln two-faced. "If I am two-faced, would I wear the face that I have now?" Lincoln asked.
Judith St. George
#57. In 2002, my husband died very suddenly. My main concern that day was how to deliver the news to our daughter, then eight. Someone put me in touch with Judith Wallerstein, an expert in child psychology who coached me through what to say.
Katie Hafner
#58. Though all the daughters eventually succeeded in escaping from their families, they felt, even at this time of the interview (while in their 20s and 30s) that they would never be safe with their fathers, and that they would have to defend themselves as long as their fathers lived.
Judith Lewis Herman
#59. The only way to enjoy the fun of catching people behaving disgustingly is to have children. One has to keep having them, however, because it is incorrect to correct grown people, even if you have grown them yourself.
Judith Martin
#60. I found that the body, mind and spirit are all connected. They are not separate pieces.
Judith Light
#61. Dance releases energy mobilized by the fight-or-flight stress response that was otherwise restrained.
Judith Lynne Hanna
#62. I do hope some of my work has a long lifetime. A piece that works out well this year may work out very well in twenty years' time as well, but I'm very much thinking about what's the right piece now, at this moment.
Judith Weir
#63. Missing you?" she giggled incredulously. "I could cheerfully murder you."
"I'd come back to haunt you," he threatened with a grin.
"And that," she said, "is the only reason why I haven't tried.
Judith McNaught
#64. The life of a singer is you have to pay your bills. You have to take a gig.
Judith Hill
#65. To me, celebrity doesn't mean a whole lot unless you're willing to use it. So I wanted to use it in a different way, with my AIDS work, the human rights stuff for the gay and lesbian community and the speaking I do.
Judith Light
#66. She felt as though she'd acquiesced in her own rape ...
Judith Rossner
#67. For workaholics, all the eggs of self-esteem are in the basket of work.
Judith M Bardwick
#68. When trust is lost, traumatized people feel that they belong more to the dead than to the living.
Judith Lewis Herman
#69. The horror of incest is not in the sexual act. but in the exploitation of children and the corruption of parental love. p4
Judith Lewis Herman
#70. Abundance is a state of mind, more than a reflection of wealth.
Judith Orloff
#71. A normal adolescent is so restless and twitchy and awkward that he can mange to injure his knee
not playing soccer, not playing football
but by falling off his chair in the middle of French class.
Judith Viorst
#72. I have always believed that the key to a happy marriage was the ability to say with a straight face, 'Why, I don't know what you're worrying about. I thought you were very funny last night and I'm sure everybody else did, too.
Judith Martin
#73. The most conventional statements are both true and welcome.
Judith Martin
#75. Fighting cancer is my mission right now. The research and development of finding cures for this nasty disease is my passion.
Judith Hill
#76. When you consider how epidemic boredom is in our time, you have to concede that entertaining is a healing art.
Judith Martin
#78. Although eBay is a fantastic tool for collectors who want to buy or sell, you really have to have knowledge of items before you embark.
Judith Miller
#79. In the twenty-first century, building resilience is one of our most urgent social and economic issues because we live in a world that is defined by disruption. Not a month goes by that we don't see some kind of disturbance to the normal flow of life
Judith Rodin
#80. Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational, but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?
Judith Viorst
#81. People will say, 'Seventy isn't old, it's middle-aged,' and I think, middle of what - 140?
Judith Martin
#82. Pessimism is a funny thing, isn't it? Madison thought as she looked at Judith's furrowed face. I like a bit of pessimism as much as the next man, but when I'm bombarded with it I suddenly became an eternal optimist.
Melissa Kite
#83. For we lose not only by death, but also by leaving and being left, by changing and letting go and moving on.
Judith Viorst
#84. Minimalism is a girl's best asset, blend tones, smudge hard outlines; if all else fails; Photoshop it.
Judith Chambers
#85. We have one life to live - and one chance to live it in the richest way possible.
Judith Thurman
#86. The symbolism in any kind of dance allows for recall, reenactment, and reexperience of events for purposes of resisting, reducing, transforming, and escaping stress.
Judith Lynne Hanna
#87. You're brave. You're good. Why would you hesitate to explore yourself? Your dark nooks and crannies? With someone who is fascinated by the whole of you? You aren't a bad woman, merely a human one, which entails a certain amount of" - he cocked his head - "'awfulness,' as you call it.
Judith Ivory
#88. Because we believe ourselves to be better parents than our parents, we expect to produce better children than they produced.
Judith Viorst
#89. College women are typically given to declaring for one or the other (in my day, for marriage; now, generally, for careers), and only later finding to their surprise that they must cope with both
while their men may be trying to figure out how to get out of doing both.
Judith Martin
#90. I don't feel like I ever really do get past the nervousness. I'm always nervous. Something about being nervous keeps you on the edge, and I've always felt like I worked better under pressure.
Judith Hill
#91. You should resolve not to seek public approval of your private business, when you are not also prepared to accept public disapproval.
Judith Martin
#92. If you aren't a living example of 'the devil quoting scripture.'
Judith McNaught
#94. Passionate investment leaves us vulnerable to loss. And sometimes, no matter how clever we are, we must lose.
Judith Viorst
#96. My first book took five years to write and I made $1,000 on it. The second took three years and I made $3,000. All this time I was a housewife being supported by a husband. I was very lucky.
Judith Rossner
#97. Impact investing can be a powerful instrument of change.
Judith Rodin
#98. Avoid the RTP Syndrome. When you rush to Publish, you rush to mistakes and chaos. Guaranteed.
Judith Briles
#99. In the middle of his rapid-fire dictatioin he said softly, without pausing, "When the sun is on your hair, it shines like spun gold," and launched back into his letter. Lauren, who had inadvertently taken half of the compliment down in shorthand, gave him a killing glance, and he chuckled.
Judith McNaught
#100. The groom always smiles proudly because he's convinced he's accomplished something quite wonderful. The bride smiles because she's been able to convince him of it.
Judith McNaught
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