Leman Quotes

#1. The measure of a gen'leman is how he treats ladies. They can call themselves what they wants, but if what they says don't match up with how they behaves, well, what they do says far more of who they are than what they says they are does, if you gets my drift.

Peter David

#2. The older your teenagers are, the more they will have their own ideas and opinions. If you take them seriously, rather than assuming your ideas are always best and the only ones, you will begin to grow a relationship that will extend beyond the hormone-group years.

Kevin Leman

#3. Good sex is an all-day affair. You can't treat your wife like a servant and expect her to be eager to sleep with you at night. Your wife's sexual responsiveness will be determined by how willingly you help out with the dishes, the kids' homework, or that leaky faucet that drips throughout the night.

Kevin Leman

#4. Cellaholics are those who interrupt quality time when they are with you, but rather text, call, and email others who are somewhere else.

Jayce O'Neal

#5. If you give your people halfhearted leadership, you'll get a halfhearted following. But if you invest yourself in them, if you have a heart for them, your people will return your investment with a heartfelt following.

Kevin Leman

#6. What happens in the context of war is that, in order for you to make a child into a killer, you destroy everything that they know, which is what happened to me and my town. My family was killed, all of my family, so I had nothing.

Ishmael Beah

#7. That's the way it is with firstborns. Mom and Dad may think they're in charge, but the firstborn knows better, and so does the youngest sibling.

Kevin Leman

#8. Sex is all that it can and should be only when it is surrounded by and wrapped in love.

Kevin Leman

#9. I love a blouse that's dumb. I love to use the word 'dumb.' It's not knowing, and the word 'blouse' is so out of fashion that I love it - 'a blouse that's dumb.'

Marc Jacobs

#10. Most arguments with teenagers are setups. Your darling, simply stated, is manipulating you.

Kevin Leman

#11. Women are not for using. Women are for loving.

Kevin Leman

#12. Talk away. If you bore us, we have books."
With this invitation Rickie began to relate his history. The reader who has no book will be obliged to listen to it.

E. M. Forster

#13. Reality discipline steers a course between an authoritarian style and a permissive style, giving kids some choices but also holding them accountable.

Kevin Leman

#14. The only way we can ever teach a child to say "I'm sorry" is for him to hear it from our lips first.

Kevin Leman

#15. Tell the children to do all their business before they come over. I do not change diapers.

Sophie Oak

#16. Your child needs not only your attention but also a relationship with you.

Kevin Leman

#17. Think about and meditate on things you are thankful for. More importantly, think about people you are thankful for and why.

Kevin Leman

#18. Life is a pressure cooker and whether you remain serene or become stressed-out depends on how you handle that pressure.

Kevin Leman

#19. Every child lives up to the expectation you have for him.

Kevin Leman

#20. A fulfilling sex life is one of the most powerful marital glues a couple can have.

Kevin Leman

#21. The problem with guilt is that it cements you to the past.

Kevin Leman

#22. Much verse fails of being poetry because it was not written exactly at the right crisis, though it may have been inconceivably near to it. It is only by a miracle that poetry is written at all. It is not recoverable thought, but a hue caught from a vaster receding thought.

Henry David Thoreau

#23. Curiosity is often mistaken as Love,
Since they both have the common elements of
Interest and Passion

Drishti Bablani

#24. How you handle peer pressure - the pressure your children feel as well as the pressure you feel - in the early years will play a significant role in how your children handle peer pressure when they become adolescents.

Kevin Leman

#25. I believe the time we really look big in a child's eyes is when we go to them and apologize for our mistakes and we say, 'I was wrong. Will you forgive me?'

Kevin Leman

#26. We need some clergy with some backbone, who don't mind making uncomfortable at times those who are very comfortable, and challenging them at the core of their faith, at least causing them to pause and to have dialogue and to be open for further discussion.

Tim McDonald

#27. Everything is more effective when it's done in love rather than anger. Love really is a decision.

Kevin Leman

#28. Your home needs to be a place where your kids can fail - and learn from their failure. Surround them with love, show them how important they are to you, but don't try to undo their failures. It's not our job as parents to get our kids off the hook.

Kevin Leman

#29. Love is a cognitive, willful act. Feelings have very little to do with it, particularly around three o'clock in the morning when the baby needs changing or somebody has "lost it" before getting to the bathroom to throw up.

Kevin Leman

#30. Big businesses are beginning to realize that the employee who puts his job before his home life is not as effective as the one who has a happy, fulfilling marriage.

Kevin Leman

#31. As a director, it's my job to provoke, and when people decided 'The Room' be called a phenomenon, or whatever you call it, it's fine with me.

Tommy Wiseau

#32. We are all cursed. We live in the era of the curse. A world that cannot be fixed. The best thing would be an alien ship. Another planet. One with three moons. But you, I saw you in my dreams. I saw you coming. You came to heal my broken heart. That's why I named you Ahlam.

Hannah Lillith Assadi

#33. A sexually fulfilled husband will do anything for you.

Kevin Leman

#34. Within the heart of every boy is an adventurer.

Kevin Leman

#35. If you want to improve your sex life as a couple, you need to examine your relationship outside the bedroom. What are you doing that is keeping you from sexual intimacy?

Kevin Leman

#36. You need to think about the future, not the past. You

Gemma Liviero

#37. Why speak of the use
of poetry? Poetry
is what uses us.

Hayden Carruth

#38. I believe that love takes time. I believe there is such a thing as infatuation at first sight, but not love at first sight.

Kevin Leman

#39. Nobody's sex life is such that every experience is a ten. You may have to be satisfied with regular eights or sixes and even an occasional three.

Kevin Leman

#40. How parents interact with each child as he or she enters the family circle determines in great part that child's final destiny.

Kevin Leman

#41. I didn't have to be a slave to the worst tendencies of my personality.

Kevin Leman