Modicum Define Quotes & Sayings

We have to care what someone thinks of us. We are incapable of seeing ourselves [sometimes]. — Darnell Lamont Walker

I would like to write a suicide note in three and a half
languages
and travel south on a Thursday towards
some form of life outside of earth — Eric Gamalinda

I have had just about all I can take of myself. — S. N. Behrman

I didn't want to kill them all. I didn't want to kill anybody! I'm not a killer! You didn't want me, you bastards, you wanted Peter, but you made me do it, you tricked me into it! — Orson Scott Card

You don't need to force a bird to like you if you are feeding it. — Matshona Dhliwayo

What I can and cannot imagine is a psychological fact about me. It is not a deep metaphysical fact about the nature of the universe. — Patricia S. Churchland

There's always hand-to-hand combat. All you need is to come up with a knife, and you'll at least stand a chance. If I get jumped, I'm dead!" I can hear my voice rising in anger.
"But you won't! You'll be living up in some tree eating raw squirrels and picking off people with arrows. — Suzanne Collins

But these gains in freedom for both men and women often seem like a triumph of subtraction rather than addition. Over time, writes Coontz, Americans have come to define liberty "negatively, as lack of dependence, the right not to be obligated to others. Independence came to mean immunity from social claims on one's wealth or time." If this is how you conceive of liberty - as freedom from obligation - then the transition to parenthood is a dizzying shock. Most Americans are free to choose or change spouses, and the middle class has at least a modicum of freedom to choose or change careers. But we can never choose or change our children. They are the last binding obligation in a culture that asks for almost no other permanent commitments at all. — Jennifer Senior

There are some parents who have really done it right and told their kid, 'You know, we have this dough, none of this is for you. You have to get your own.' — Robert Downey Jr.

Today's parents grew up with the silly notion that music was meant to be heard. — Bill Cosby