Strong Willed Mother Quotes

#1. I had a very strong-willed mother, who I totally adored. She was always in control of her life.

Jan De Bont

#2. Without 'consent' in any human interactions, there's an ethical violation.

Henry Johnson Jr

#3. She is softhearted yet strong willed.
She is compassionate yet unwavering in principle. She is a loving mother, yet she risked my life to save others.

J.L. Witterick

#4. The only reason I didn't kill myself after I read the reviews of my first book was because we have two rivers in New York and I couldn't decide which one to jumo into.

Wilfrid Sheed

#5. We economists don't know much, but we do know how to create a shortage. If you want to create a shortage of tomatoes, for example, just pass a law that retailers can't sell tomatoes for more than two cents per pound. Instantly you'll have a tomato shortage. It's the same with oil or gas.

Milton Friedman

#6. Every writer scrounges for inspiration in different places, and there's no shame in raiding the headlines. It's necessary, in fact, when attempting contemporary satire. Sharp-edged humor relies on topical reference points.

Carl Hiaasen

#7. Polonius: My lord, I will take my leave of you.
Hamlet: You cannot, sir, take from me anything that I will more willingly part withal ...

William Shakespeare

#8. wide awake as your soul remains tired. sitting silently under the moon as your mind continues to scream. you're losing yourself, you're losing sleep but he's losing you. some time soon, the thought of him will no longer keep you up at night.

R H Sin

#9. We always expect tremendous criticism. It is my role to be the lightning rod ... to attract the attacks against the organization for our work, and that is a difficult role. On the other hand, I get undue credit.

Julian Assange

#10. [My mother is] a half-Chinese, half-Jamaican woman, who grew up the ninth of nine kids, getting a law degree from Harvard. Academically brilliant, but also incredibly strong-willed and ethical. My mother was like that, my sister is, and my wife is too.

Harry Connick Jr.

#11. When Harvard men say they have graduated from Radcliffe, then we've made it.

Jackie Kennedy

#12. Truth is always unfolding. It's not an absolute.

Alan Arkin

#13. The thing with life is you get one chance.

Karen Kingsbury

#14. He used to say to his melancholia patients:
You can be cured in fourteen days if you follow this prescription.Try to think every day how you can please someone.

Alfred Adler

#15. It was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials.

John Steinbeck

#16. The more and more I work with really great actors, the more it's about opening yourself up to what they bring.

Tom Hooper

#17. Let him have the key of thy heart, who hath the lock of his own.

Thomas Browne

#18. My mother was a strong-willed and opinionated woman - a Sicilian! - and if she didn't like something, she'd let you know about it. So her undying support of her kids went a long way in proving to us that we were on the right path.

Marlo Thomas

#19. Like an old person, the Old Soul is easily tired by pressure, tension and conflict. To them, the matters of everyday life are unsurprising, commonplace and inconsequential in the greater scheme of things.

Aletheia Luna