Parented By Examples Quotes

#1. In order for a society to survive, it must generate a sufficient level of physical production both to meet its current needs, and to produce a surplus for upgrading its productive powers.

Robert Trout

#2. When the dream came into being, I always pursued it.

Marguerite Young

#3. Since our society equates happiness with youth, we often assume that sorrow, quiet desperation, and hopelessness go hand in hand with getting older. They don't. Emotional pain or numbness are symptoms of living the wrong life, not a long life.

Martha Beck

#4. It is very difficult to have a free, fair and honest press anywhere in the world. In the first place, as a rule, papers are largely supported by advertising, and that immediately gives the advertisers a certain hold over the medium they use.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#5. When in doubt, do the courageous thing.

Jan Smuts

#6. Why is it that fools always have the instinct to hunt out the unpleasant secrets of life, and the hardiness to mention them?

Emily Eden

#7. Consciousness is the chronic pain of life, and all higher organisms suffer it every waking moment.

David Marusek

#8. You know, in Saudi Arabia, there is a body of 40 people - 34 people exactly, that once the succession comes, they will meet and they will elect a king in there.

Al-Waleed Bin Talal

#9. Obligation is the bitterest thraldom.

Suzanne Curchod

#10. What
Would
Happen if God leaned down

And gave you a full wet
Kiss?

Hafiz
Doesn't mind answering astronomical questions
Like that:

You would surely start
Reciting all day, inebriated,

Rogue-poems
Like
This.

Daniel Ladinsky

#11. Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.

Honore De Balzac

#12. For a man who thought it was okay to threaten a little girl and her mother? There was no second chance.

Eve Langlais

#13. My motivation was an idea of being able to improve the conditions of life, to try to find a remedy to many of the problems facing the world. That's what led me into economics. I saw it as a way of helping people.

Maurice Allais

#14. I can't say what my first thought was as I sunk below the surface, because it was mostly a string of four-letter words.

Rachel Hawkins