Daphne Wilder Quotes & Sayings

Help your children to see and notice poverty and differences in privilege that seem inhumane and unfair. Do this in a way that does not increase guilt or shame for what you have as a family, but rather helps them see their responsibility for sharing with others and keeping others in mind. — Polly Young-Eisendrath

I never could have planned this, and now I'm in my ideal situation career-wise and just sort of where I am in my life, and I'm super happy with how everything's going. — Shawn Ashmore

You know every cell in our bodies is completely renewed every seven years, so how can we talk about being the same person? We're absolutely not. — Jeanette Winterson

What I want is, not to possess religion, but to have a religion that shall possess me. — Charles Kingsley

There are no bad words. Bad thoughts. Bad intentions, and wooooords. — George Carlin

The meeting started, and I could barely listen for my self-mortification. I wanted the hour to end so I could ask her what it was I had done. And then, all of a sudden, it hit me - boing! This had NOTHING to do with me. I felt a wave of relief, an internal shift like I had just had a chiropractic adjustment. I realized that I had made something that had nothing to do with me into something that was all about me.

I saw that I had been doing this all my life. When I was a kid, my mom was easily annoyed, and I always figured it was me bugging her. After growing up like that, I was forever making myself the cause of other people's pain. It was self-centered and rendered me incapable of compassion for others, because I'm no good to anybody else when it's all about me. And frankly, most things have nothing to do with me. It was very adolescent, really. I got it, suddenly and profoundly. — Jane Lynch

I've always been the sort of person who immerses myself in things, and eventually you become part of that life. — Marc Almond

Then I learnt of "white Christmas", which again I found very peculiar since we always have a white Christmas at home for it never passes by without eating rice. That is our white Christmas. — Gloria D. Gonsalves

Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of Love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving. — Osho

One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group. — Zayn Malik

Especially on Broadway, composers and lyricists fretted over their creations, obsessed over every rhyme, every critical chord or interval. The stakes were so high. On Broadway, people were watching and judging, especially newspaper critics who knew a thousand ways to slice and dice a songwriter for the entertainment of hundreds of thousands of faithful readers. There was no anonymity for the Broadway songwriter. Even the best could find themselves stripped naked the morning after by the tastemakers and their readers. — Michael Kosser

Rather than simply interrupting a television show with a commercial or barging into the consumer's life with an unannounced phone call or letter, tomorrow's marketer will first try to gain the consumer's consent to participate in the selling process. — Seth

What distinguished man from the brutes was his freedom. When, — Ford Madox Ford

most things I worry 'bout never happen anyway — Tom Petty

What saved the economy, and the New Deal was the enormous public-works project known as World War II, which finally provided a fiscal stimulus adequate to the economy's needs. — Paul Krugman