Over Attentive Parenting Quotes & Sayings

You'll go off to your S&M high school, and I'm going to stay and lose my mind. I'm going to be so socially destroyed, I'm going to turn radioactive." "Well," said Laurence. "I don't know that it's possible to 'turn radioactive,' unless you're exposed to certain isotopes, and in that case you probably wouldn't survive. — Charlie Jane Anders

The summit of Mauna Kea was definitely a place where it was better to be a hard to replace skilled engineer than an easy to replace technician. It was my experience that once you had developed Mauna Kea Sickness that the management team would blatantly harass you out of your job using nasty inhumane human resources techniques. — Steven Magee

The greatest of human actions will appear to be insignificant when we come to die, and especially those upon which men most pride themselves
these will yield them the bitterest humiliation. We shall then say what madmen we must have been to have wasted so much time and energy upon such paltry things. When we shall discover that they were not real, that they were but mere bubbles, mere pretences, we shall then look upon ourselves as demented to have spent the whole of our life and of our energy upon them. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

If you wanted nothing done at all, Balfour was the man for the job. — Winston Churchill

What separates the heroes from the villains? One speech in the night? — Brandon Sanderson

Not the action, but the expectation creates results. — Debasish Mridha

Q: There's this talking frog that says he's a prince. What are the repercussions of cooking it for dinner?
A: There are none. Make sure you bread the whole frog evenly. — Seanan McGuire

The modern moralists extol ... the cult of practical activity in defiance of the disinterested life. — Julien Benda

She would be trouble, this one; the fact that he was lying awake now was proof of that. — Kimberly Derting

Be very attentive towards the child's evolving World of Senses that needs Stability, Routine, & Structure, World of Emotions that needs Love, Freedom & Creativity and World of Thoughts that needs Discrimination as an Ability to choose Right Thinking, Emotions, Behaviour. — Natasa Nuit Pantovic

Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it. — Ayn Rand

He was on his knees before this female, and he'd gladly stay there for the rest of his life. — Lara Adrian

the child of a supermom who gets lots of extra tutoring and one-on-one support is going to do way better than an average well-loved child. But what Blair's and Evans's research suggests is that regular good parenting - being helpful and attentive during a game of Jenga - can make a profound difference for a child's future prospects. — Paul Tough

I think that the measure of whether a life has been a good one is how much love there has been in that life
love both given and received. — Alexander McCall Smith

It's hard when you're missing your family. You wake up every morning like someone took one of your legs. — Lemony Snicket

We writers are shy, nocturnal creatures. Push us into the light and the light blinds us. — John Banville