Overindulgent Quotes

#1. Both kinds of parenting, finally, are forms of overidentification. The helicopter parent turns the child into an instrument of her will. The overindulgent parent projects his own need for limitless freedom and security. In either case, the child is made to function as an extension of somebody else.

William Deresiewicz

#2. Obviously, the most memorable has a lot to do with the time spent on the matter, and the Westerfield and Peterson cases are up at the top of the list.

Catherine Crier

#3. And I liked that whole idea that energy comes from not disseminating your ideas and talking about them.

Cameron Crowe

#4. It is an awful, an appalling thought, that we may be, this moment and every moment, in the presence of malignant spirits.

Richard Whately

#5. He tends to mistake the unknown for the nonexistent.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#6. Some of them relate to farts but they are not fart jokes. They would just be a fart in the joke but it's about something else ...

Demetri Martin

#7. Academics were important to my parents, as immigrants. Education is where it all begins.

Renee Zellweger

#8. No one has the ability, that I'm aware of, to do anything supernatural, psychic, talk to the dead.

Criss Angel

#9. Some have paid me an undeserved compliment by supposing that my Letters were the ripe fruit of many years' study in moral and ascetic theology. They forgot that there is an equally reliable, though less creditable, way of learning how temptation works.

C.S. Lewis

#10. In my heart, poetry screams, "I exist!

Delano Johnson

#11. When it comes to raising civilized kids there are no hard rules, but there are two things on which most parents agree: Boys are generally wilder than girls, and adolescents are wilder than kids of any other age. If you've got an adolescent boy, you're in the sweet spot for trouble.

Jeffrey Kluger

#12. As though I had been flat water and now I was carbonated.

Anna Quindlen

#13. I believe we make our own destinies, every last one of us.

Morgan Rhodes

#14. I started thinking what could happen with my art and I realized that the biggest thing that could is that it winds up in a museum. It's like finding a rare animal and putting it in the zoo.

Patti Smith

#15. Just because your environment or living space changes doesn't mean that your attitude necessarily has to change.

Kevin Hart

#16. I didn't mean to take up all your sweet time ... I'll give it right back to you, one of these days

Jimi Hendrix