537 quotes found
“Both within the family and without our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to become.”
“Sisters define their rivalry in terms of competition for the gold cup of parental love. It is never perceived as a cup which runneth over rather a finite vessel from which the more one sister drin...”
“The desire to be and have a sister is a primitive and profound one that may have everything or nothing to do with the family a woman is born to. It is a desire to know and be known by someone who s...”
“If we could only give just once the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation we would be startled at our...”
“If we would only give just once the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation we would be startled at our...”
“A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well but will sometimes strike on a rock and go to the bottom whilst a republic is a raft which will never sink but then your feet are always in water.”
“A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.”
“The specialist is a man who fears the other subjects.”
“The practice of medicine is a thinker's art the practice of surgery a plumber's.”
“One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.”
“When a man is small he loves and hates food with a ferocity which soon dims. At six years old his very bowels will heave when such a dish as creamed carrots or cold tapioca appear before him.”
“A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well but will sometimes strike on a rock and go to the bottom a republic is a raft which will never sink but then your feet are always in water.”
“Until you know that life is interesting and find it so you haven't found your soul.”
“There is no point at which you can say "Well I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap."”
“When shall we live if not now?”
“Knowledge is a process of piling up facts wisdom lies in their simplification.”
“Its really kind of well, beautiful, in a way. Even the monsters, once you get to know em. Were all beautiful.”
“Technical knowledge, divorced from what it is supposed to be knowledge of, yields only the illusion of understanding. It's like being able to reel off the locations in a baseball field -- first bas...”
“the focus one finds in the grammar books is on the wrong forms, on forms detached from the underlying (or overarching) form that must be in place before any technical terms can be meaningful or alive”
“...an obsession is a way for damaged people to damage themselves more.”
