Parental Reality Quotes

#1. Is it possible to run a big industrial corporation in a benevolent fashion? We see these days that even the hippest companies hide some rotten practices to make their profit margins work.

Ann Nocenti

#2. Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.

John C. Maxwell

#3. Lydia is dead. But they don't know this yet. 1977, May 3, six thirty in the morning, no one knows anything but this innocuous fact: Lydia is late for breakfast.

Celeste Ng

#4. He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever." - Chinese proverb

Kevin E. Kruse

#5. She gave up the rest. The relief was physical, like releasing a long tight breath that had crowded her lungs for too long, letting it go because it was stale, the oxygen was gone.

Jennifer Egan

#6. We're going forward, but nothing changes.

Albert Camus

#7. There is room for everyone; there is room for every culture, race, language and point of view.

Desmond Tutu

#8. Reading is seeing by proxy.

Herbert Spencer

#9. I know a place where the wild thyme blows, where oxlips and the nodding violet grows.

William Shakespeare

#10. Others fear what the morrow may bring. I am afraid of what happened yesterday.

Aziz Ansari

#11. I can think of no more dangerous a position than to learn to tolerate evil in order to become accustomed to reality.

Sarah Mally

#12. I was a bad student. I liked archaeology actually, I was interested in maybe becoming an archaeologist but I was such a bad student and had such bad grades that I wasn't going to get into any really good college so I fell back on acting.

Ben Stiller

#13. I try to be prepared for the moment, through understanding, and being warmed up, knowing all about chords and scales, so I don't even have to think and I can get right to what it is I want to say.

Pat Metheny

#14. I have a very extreme state of mind. Things are very black or very white.

Martin Freeman

#15. What you eat should not just be "good for you" but it should contribute to your happiness - it should make you a happier person.

Sharon Gannon

#16. He claimed that no act or thought that did not have love as its purpose was of God. Love was the secret of God's perfection. Man was imperfect only because of his inability to live life as a continuous act of love.

Michael Puttonen

#17. Children naturally believe without question and absorb knowledge at an incredible rate; since there is no other frame of reference; they believe their parental reality, true or false.

David W. Earle