C17 Quotes & Sayings

The first is spatial: I can imagine how you literally see the world, such that what's on my right is on your left when we're facing one another. In the second type, I can imagine how you think about things - for example, how you might have trouble solving a problem that's easy for me, or how you might hold beliefs about, say, raising children that are different from mine. The third kind consists of imagining how you feel, how something could upset you even if it doesn't have that effect on me. (This last type of perspective taking is sometimes confused with "empathy," which means that I share your feelings. To empathize isn't just to understand that you're angry but actually to feel angry along with you.) — Alfie Kohn

Precisely what menstruation is, is not yet very well known. — G. Stanley Hall

Love is an obsession. It has that quality to it. But there are healthy obsessions, and mine is one of them. — Pamela Stephenson

When good befalls a man he calls it Providence, when evil fate. — Knut Hamsun

What are you accepting that would not be a part of your ideal day? — Alan Cohen

Take the first A out of Abraham and put it at the end. You get Brahama. There's the ancient connection right there. — Ashwin Sanghi

Government has no business intervening in any consensual private behavior. — Camille Paglia

You can't screw up your own suicide and then expect the universe to give you presents wrapped in the skin of a wonderful boy. That's just not the way it works. — Heather Demetrios

She stopped over the ledge where he worked and she stood watching him openly. When he raised his head, she did not turn away. Her glance told him that she knew the meaning of her action, but did not respect him enough to conceal it. His glance told her only that he had expected her to come. — Ayn Rand

I find it heartening that readers are still excited about diving into a world. — Garth Risk Hallberg