Razoring Scissors Quotes

#1. The adults don't know what's happening on the kids' universe and the kids don't know what's happening on the adults' universe.

Alice Hoffman

#2. I meant I'm not afraid of love being difficult. If it was easy, then everyone would find it.

Kim Harrison

#3. As a culture moves from orality to writing to printing to televising, its ideas of truth move with it.

Neil Postman

#4. It is better to meditate a little bit with depth than to mediate long with the mind running here and there. If you do not make an effort to control the mind it will go on doing as it pleases, no matter how long you sit to meditate.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#5. A consciousness of wrongdoing is the first step to salvation ... you have to catch yourself doing it before you can correct it.

Seneca The Younger

#6. What is the purpose of intelligence if it is not to serve others?

Muriel Barbery

#7. Grinding his teeth to keep from lashing out, Caillen did as instructed. A little belligerently, granted, still he did obey as he'd promised his father he would. But it was hard to sit up straight when what he really wanted to do was give the pompous ass in front of him a goblet enema.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#8. Life, Rose well knew, could throw some hard punches at you, but nothing hurt as much as losing a child, or seeing one of your children hurt and suffering. Becoming a parent changed you forever, as nothing else could. Not good or bad fortune. Not friendships. Not even a man or a woman.

Jennifer Donnelly

#9. I found nothing really wrong with this autobiography except poor choice of subject.

Clifton Fadiman