Neopuritan Quotes & Sayings

I'm married. My wife, Stella - a beautiful woman. She's brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom. — Anthony Hopkins

Birth was something that came quite unexpectedly, and afterwards there was one child more in the house. — Georg Brandes

Boys must find ways to compete and see themselves as performing well. If they do not, if society does not provide them with these opportunities, they'll compete against society itself, abusing their community and themselves. — Michael Gurian

Still, I was thinking that this was all wrong, despite feeling so nice, for once again one of my most sacred and deepest erotic fantasies was brutally being shattered, and once more it was all because of Ami. After all, it had been one of my fondest dreams, as a teenager, to lie in bed cuddling with a cute girl, or even with Yumi. Of course, in those many imaginations, we were both naked and we were having wild passionate sex as well as cuddling, but there before me at that very moment was the sad pathetic reality. — Andrew James Pritchard

Nobody sees anybody truly but only through the flaws of their own ego. — Tennessee Williams

During the height of the government enforcement of the Civil Rights Act, some segregated townships filled in their municipal pools rather than let nonwhite kids share in the perverse joy of peeing in the water. — Paul Beatty

It is safe to say that when people are short on cash, they might be less productive at work, be worse parents, and have less self-control. — Sendhil Mullainathan

We learn a great lesson when we come to understand that the deliberate quieting of our souls and minds before God is the secret of true adoration. — Andrew Murray

He was still looking steadily at her. His eyes were clear, cool and hard, but something in the depths of them flickered and shifted. She thought: 'He'd take any advantage he could
fair or unfair. Caddish he is.' Then as she stared back at him she felt a great longing to put her head on his knees and shut her eyes. To stop thinking. Stop the little wheels in her head that worked incessantly. To give in and have a little peace. The unutterably sweet peace of giving in. — Jean Rhys

My life has been filled with terrible misfortunes - most of which never happened. Mark Twain — Jack Kornfield

I am a gym rat who loves to work out, particularly running, Zumba, yoga, cycling, and kickboxing. — Aprilynne Pike

Wish" gives the warmth, the content, the imagination, the child's play, the freshness, and the richness to "will." "Will" gives the self-direction, the maturity, to "wish." Without "wish," "will" loses its life-blood, its
viability, and tends to expire in self-contradiction. If you have only "will" and no "wish," you have the dried-up, Victorian, neopuritan man. If you have only "wish" and no "will," you have the driven, unfree, infantile person who, as an adult-remaining-an-infant, may become the robot man.66 — Irvin D. Yalom

In building the helping relationship, encouragement - via positive reinforcement - certainly seems appropriate. But if it is not sensitively handled, such encouragement can quickly become patronizing and insulting. My — Edgar H Schein

I feel blessed I can address students who are the future of India. — Narendra Modi

We have in England a curious belief in first-rate people, meaning all the people we do not know; and this consoles us for the undeniable second-rateness of the people we do know. — George Bernard Shaw

Rich countries want unfettered access to poor countries' markets, which are often heavily protected by tariffs, but they don't want to give up all the protections for their own goods and services. — Daniel Altman