Sevareid Johnson Quotes & Sayings

For many of us, owning a home signaled a passage into adulthood that coincided with the start of a career and family. — Ben Bernanke

It now costs more to amuse a child than it once did to educate his father. — Vaughn Monroe

[In]the too solid three-dimensional city, I could never feel myself as anything but spectral, disintegrating, pointless, fluid. — V.S. Naipaul

History - the non-fiction version - must inform the fiction to make it truthful; too much of it and your genres are colliding. — Jon Weisman

Crying does nothing but water the pain and allow it to grow. — C.C. Hunter

A half-hearted commitment provides halfway results, while — Tim Challies

What stunned me was the regular assertion that feminists were "anti-family." ... It was motherhood that got me into the movementin the first place. I became an activist after recognizing how excruciatingly personal the political was to me and my sons. It was the women's movement that put self-esteem back into "just a housewife," rescuing our intelligence from the junk pile of "instinct" and making it human, deliberate, powerful. — Mary Blakely

They may ignore your achievements.
They may ridicule your vision.
They may speak poorly about you.

They will win, if you lose confidence. — Vala Afshar

We pay for sins we do not remember, and seek to do a will we can scarce fathom. That is what it is, to be a god's chosen. — Jacqueline Carey

There was a time - before I made movies - when I was more forgiving, but now that I've learned as much as I have, I want to do movies that I want to see, that have their own unique flavor. — Ryan Phillippe

For children mastery entails struggle. This means they must be permitted to struggle. If parents inappropriately step in to "help"-out of impatience or solicitude-they sabotage important learning. Among other things, the child is unlikely to discover the advantages of perseverance and self-discipline. — Nathaniel Branden

The way my face is without a jaw, my throat just ends in sort of a hole with my tongue hanging out. Around the hole, the skin is all scar tissue: dark red lumps and shiny the way you'd look if you got the cherry pie in a pie eating contest. If I let my tongue hang down, you can see the roof of my mouth, pink and smooth as the inside of a crab's back, and hanging down around the roof is the white vertebrae horseshoe of the upper teeth I have left. — Chuck Palahniuk

If you can't see the good man he is, you need to unscrew them eyeballs of yours and try on a different pair. — Karen Witemeyer