David Elkind The Hurried Child Quotes & Sayings

President Obama has offered a plan with 4 trillion dollars in debt reduction over a decade, with two and a half dollars of spending reductions for every one dollar of revenue increases, and tight controls on future spending. It's the kind of balanced approach proposed by the bipartisan Simpson-Bowles commission. — William J. Clinton

And from a quiet modesty that would have become a vestal, which seemed continually to impress upon him that he had no great claim on the world's room, Oak walked unassumingly and with a faintly perceptible bend, yet distinct from a bowing of the shoulders. — Thomas Hardy

I did everything I could to stay in college and pay my own way, so I think that if success hadn't come so quickly, I would still be pursuing it. — Moira Kelly

In the right hands, a comic strip attains a beauty and elegance that, really, I would put against any other art. — Bill Watterson

I always carried in my breast or hip pocket a video camera disguised as a pen. It was linked to software whose algorithms alerted me that the body language of a person approaching was consistent with that of an impending attack. I also used it to record crowds in public when I was transporting principals, to see if faces of passersby in one locale turn up in another. A — Jeffery Deaver

I am angry and frustrated at your behavior. You don't have to do anything about those feelings; those feelings are mine. It might help you to know how I am feeling. You can look at what you are doing, but I don't want you to change just because I am upset. I am going to take some time and sort out what I am feeling and then we are going to talk about what's going on with you. There may be a consequence, but if I decide what that is right now, I am afraid it is going to be based on my anger and not what you truly need. — Brad M. Reedy

God is love, and His law is love. Its two great principles are love to God and love to man. — Ellen G. White

While the notion that torture works has been glorified in television shows and movies, the simple truth is this: torture has never been an effective interrogation method. — Jerrold Nadler