Martin Terman Quotes & Sayings

Motherhood brings as much joy as ever, but it still brings boredom, exhaustion, and sorrow too. Nothing else ever will make you as happy or as sad, as proud or as tired, for nothing is quite as hard as helping a person develop his own individuality especially while you struggle to keep your own. — Marguerite Kelly

He that needs five thousand pound to live,
Is full as poor as he that needs but five. — George Herbert

It amazed me how polarizing sexuality could be for the people sticking their noses in your personal life. Why is it anyone else's business who I'm attracted too? — Erik Schubach

Poems give you the lives of others and then circle in on your own inner world. — Frances Mayes

Age is a number that doesn't reflect circumstance, environment or psychology. — Krista Ritchie

We do believe in setting goals. We live by goals. In athletics we always have a goal. When we go to school, we have the goal of graduation and degrees. Our total existence is goal-oriented. We must have goals to make progress, encouraged by keeping records ... as the swimmer or the jumper or the runner does ... Progress is easier when it is timed, checked, and measured ... Goals are good. Laboring with a distant aim sets the mind in a higher key and puts us at our best. Goals should always be made to a point that will make us reach and strain. — Spencer W. Kimball

I've never bought a sports car. — Brian O'Driscoll

Small wonder he refused to marry. Why buy a cow when there were udders all around begging to be milked? — George R R Martin

Do you know how often I've fantasized about the color of your nipples?" he growled against her neck before feathering soft kisses up to her jaw. — Katie Reus

There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. Surely these should never be confused in the mind of any man who has the slightest inkling of what culture is. For most of us it is essential that we should make a living ... In the complications of modern life and with our increased accumulation of knowledge, it doubtless helps greatly to compress some years of experience into far fewer years by studying for a particular trade or profession in an institution; but that fact should not blind us to another - namely, that in so doing we are learning a trade or a profession, but are not getting a liberal education as human beings. — James Truslow Adams

The things young women read nowadays and profess to enjoy positively frighten me. — Agatha Christie

We reduce things to mere Nature in order that we may "conquer" them. — C.S. Lewis

It is undeniable that a woman's ability to stretch and pursue her total competence outside the home and get paid what she's worth for it makes for happier and more fulfilled women. — Kyle D. Pruett

And into this bizarrerie, as into all his others, I quietly fell; giving myself up to his wild whims with a perfect abandon. — Edgar Allan Poe

My soul bleeds and the blood steadily, silently, disturbingly slowly, swallows me whole. — Fyodor Dostoevsky