Feixes Simples Quotes & Sayings

This book explains how it became fashionable to pathologize the behavior of millions of healthy male children. We have turned against boys and forgotten a simple truth: the energy, competitiveness, and corporal daring of normal males are responsible for much of what is right in the world. No one denies that boys' aggressive tendencies must be mitigated and channeled toward constructive ends. Boys need (and crave) discipline, respect, and moral guidance. Boys need love and tolerant understanding. But being a boy is not a social disease. — Christina Hoff Sommers

I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent. — Bette Davis

Terrorism isn't insanity. It grows out of social conditions that are well known: poverty, social oppression, dictatorship, and a void of meaning in the lives of ordinary people. — Deepak Chopra

Civilization, or "the system" or "society" or whatever you want to call it, is best served not by mules but by free men. — Robert M. Pirsig

America's 'social contract' is equal opportunity ... yet we have failed in achieving that seminal goal. — George Kaiser

Doing 20 minutes of stretching, light weights and floor exercises three times a week takes the same amount of time as a long coffee break - and eating a tuna fish salad, sardines on toast or scrambled eggs is surely preferable to a Big Mac or KFC. — Joan Collins

If you're religious, it gives you a perspective. — Martha Beck

When imagination changes from hoping to knowing, it makes things real. — Angelo Dirks

If you see someone being bullied, make it stop. Why is that so hard for us to do? — Susane Colasanti

I wrote a letter to my Dad - I wrote, "I really enjoy being here," but I accidentally wrote rarely instead of really. But I still wanted to use it, so I wrote, "I rarely drive steamboats, Dad - there's a lot of stuff you don't know about me. Quit trying to act like I'm a steamboat operator." This letter took a harsh turn right away. — Mitch Hedberg

The product is second to managing the people. — Andrea Jung