Not Walking On Eggshells Quotes

#1. Post-traumatic stress disorder didn't surface as a condition until 1980 ... that fact was very relevant when I remember back to how these men behaved. A lot of walking on eggshells was required for wives and children.

Matthew Nable

#2. I realized that an artist seeking to tell the truth in her art takes great courage. I recognize the courage required to bring children together from Israeli and Palestinian communities to find commonality in music as a very powerful and effective beginning towards Peace.

Yoko Ono

#3. Eggshells become hard to break after walking on them for so long.

Mia Castile

#4. Are you a consumer or producer?

Richard North Patterson

#5. I've certainly long described myself as an activist. But an agitator? Well, yes, that too, I think.

Martin Burns

#6. The standard rumor at the time was that Rumsfeld, as chief of staff, had persuaded President Ford to appoint George H.W. Bush as director of Central Intelligence, assuming that that got rid of a potential competitor for the presidency.

Bobby Ray Inman

#7. I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.

Abel Korzeniowski

#8. No matter how advanced the system, no matter how precise, unless we have the will to communicate, there's no connection. And even supposing the will is there, there are times like now when we don't know the other party's number. Or even if we know the number, we misdial.

Haruki Murakami

#9. The imagined community of millions seems more real as a team of eleven named people.

Eric Hobsbawm

#10. I feel like I represent every young dancer, and even non-dancer, who felt they were not accepted by the ballet world. I'd like to think that they can see themselves in me.

Misty Copeland

#11. I can barely recall a single holiday when my father didn't make a scene or create some kind of chaos. We were always walking on eggshells.

Dominique Moceanu

#12. He broke in and wanted to know how I imagined this other life. So I shouted: 'A life that would remind me of this one

Albert Camus

#13. In a certain sense, Zen is feeling life instead of feeling something about life.

Alan Watts

#14. When you learn about stories in school, you get it backward. You start to think 'Oh, the reason these things are in stories is because a book said I need to put these things in there.' You need a death, as my husband says, and you need a little sidekick with a saying like 'Skivel-dee-doo!'

Lynda Barry

#15. I spread eggshells all over my room, so anyone who tries to get close when I sleep will know what they're walking on

Josh Stern

#16. White fragility! White people are so sensitive about race and racial conversations. I feel like I'm always walking on eggshells when I'm around white people.

Margaret Cho

#17. That's the kiss-ass generation we're in right now. We're really in a pussy generation. Everybody's walking on eggshells.

Clint Eastwood

#18. A lot of times, you feel like you're walking on eggshells in a creative environment, because everyone's having to watch out for egos so much of the time.

Tony Hale

#19. Depression is the most extreme form of vanity.

Julie Burchill

#20. For nearly four weeks, his family had been walking on eggshells around him, expecting him to fall apart at any moment and he was damn tired of it. He wished he could apart. Maybe it would hurt less if he could just say to hell with everything and find a corner to hide away in.

Nicola Sinclair

#21. There are worse things to be than a disease," she said, idly thoughtful. "When you have one, it reminds you that you're alive. Makes you fight for what you have. When the disease has run its course, normal healthy life seems wonderful by comparison.

Brandon Sanderson

#22. One suit for the White Devil!" in Mandarin,

Christopher Moore

#23. He's pulling the load of an ox and walking on eggshells.

Stieg Larsson

#24. Let not a man's self be to him all in all.

Benjamin Whichcote