Millon Quotes

#1. Borderlines create the vicious circles they fear most. They become angry and drive the relationship to the breaking point, then switch to a posture of helplessness and contrition, beg for reconciliation. If both parties are equally enmeshed, chaos and conflict become the soul of the relationship.

Theodore Millon

#2. Personalities are like impressionistic paintings. At a distance, each person is 'all of a piece'; up close, each is a bewildering complexity of moods, cognitions, and motives.

Theodore Millon

#3. Millon and Davis analogize the personality as one's psychological immune system.

Frank M. Dattilio

#4. I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able to enter the poem as a participant. So I try to get past resolving poems.

Yusef Komunyakaa

#5. The only real peace anyone will ever have is the one that comes from within. Live your life on your own terms and make it a happy life. Always. That's what's important,

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#6. One response to feeling abandoned is to abandon yourself.

Theodore Millon

#7. I just need you and some sunsets.

Atticus Poetry

#8. A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.

Friedrich Schiller

#9. I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.

Phyllis Theroux

#10. Going on the ship felt like 100 years or one day. Timeless. Beautiful vertigo. It will continue to show up in my work.

Wanda Koop

#11. Always expect a kick in the teeth," said Millon, "so that when you get a slap in the chops, it seems like a triumph.

Jasper Fforde

#12. I kept looking to do songs that were written years ago and would live or outlive all of us, and the one thing they had in common was Sinatra.

Michael Bolton

#13. Last night. I couldn't put that book down. I was awake till four this morning finishing it. I didn't know reading could be like that, I had no idea.

Jill Mansell

#14. Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.

Lord Byron

#15. I've seen novels that have grown out of one story in a collection. But it hasn't occurred to me to take any of those stories and build on them. They seem very finished for me, so I don't feel like going back and dredging them up.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#16. At the end of the day, there's not an office complex anywhere on these grounds that I wouldn't be honored to have as a sitting member of Congress.

Steve Womack