Respong Quotes & Sayings

When you do not respond to the needs of others, pretending you do not hear them, other people will also pretend they are deaf in time of your need. — Sunday Adelaja

My dad wrote to me. My mum put him up to it because she got this great idea that hearing from someone I'd never met and who didn't give a fuck about me might cheer me up... — Helen Falconer

Conventional forms of narrative allow for different points of view, but for this book I wanted a structure whereby each of the main characters contributed a distinctive version of the story. — Penelope Lively

I sat silent, ambushed by love for my sons. And by regret. Regret for the past, when I didn't or couldn't give them the nurturing they needed, and regret for what they-and I-could never have back. The irony was that now, when my sons no longer needed it, my love for them was unconditional. Sometimes, when either of my children came up against a thorny problem, I found myself worrying: did I give him what he needs to deal with this? Could I have done better? I could do better now, I thought. Now that it's too late.
But when you speak of your sons it is always with admiration. Is it true you would like to return and do things that might change who they are? — Alice Steinbach

The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom spun too fine. — Benjamin Franklin

Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense. — Amos Bronson Alcott

For Aristotle, habits reigned supreme. The behaviors that occur unthinkingly are the evidence of our truest selves. — Charles Duhigg

David: Hello
David: Are you there
David: Hello
ELIXIR: Hello.
David: How are you?
ELIXIR: Hello.
David: Wrong.
ELIXIR: I'm fine.
ELIXIR: How are you?
David: I've been better.
David: Do you want to know why?
David: I have a story to tell you.
ELIXIR: I'm all ears.
David: Correct. — Liz Moore

We work in the best of our abilities. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Marriage is the moral death of every proud soul, of all independence. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Transported to a different culture, thought often loses its subtlety and can even rampage like a wild beast. — Minae Mizumura

I can't see any great evidence that humans have any ability to access anything other than the material world. Beyond that, who knows, but there's no good evidence that would take me to any particular belief. — Bernard Beckett

Anyone who creates something new or does something different artistically is going to be singled out. — Carlisle Floyd