Skenazy Lenore Quotes & Sayings

Cleveland is the place I grew up and lived much of my adult life, so it will always be a part of my soul. — Mark Edwards

More and more I feel like the boy who cut off his nose to spite his face. — Holly Black

You're not capable of stepping into nirvana at this time. If you did it would be disastrous. You're tonal would be swamped. — Frederick Lenz

Who's crazy: people who trust other people, or people who don't? — Lenore Skenazy

No power is born of hate.
All power and authority is born of love.
Oh, you, who want any power somewhere!
Ask yourselves who and what you love? — Osyp Nazaruk

Sometimes when you hit send, you can imagine the message going straight into the person's heart. But other times, like this time, it feels like the words are merely falling into a well. — David Levithan

words 'ebed and doulos has been undertaken with particular attention to their meaning in each specific context. Thus in Old Testament times, one might enter slavery either voluntarily (e.g., to escape poverty or to pay off a debt) or involuntarily (e.g., by birth, by being captured in battle, or by judicial sentence). Protection for all in servitude in ancient Israel was provided by the Mosaic Law. In New Testament times, a doulos is often best described as a "bondservant" - that is, as someone bound to serve his master for a specific (usually lengthy) period of time, but also as someone who might nevertheless own property, achieve social advancement, and even be released or purchase his freedom. The ESV usage — Anonymous

My whole life is a practical joke. Every evening and every show has really become about entertaining me. I was always like that. And now I've come full circle because that's what the TV show is too. — Howie Mandel

We want our children to have a childhood that's magical and enriched, but I'll bet that your best childhood memories involve something you were thrilled to do by yourself. These are childhood's magic words: I did it myself! — Lenore Skenazy

Syn bio tech had come on stream, springing full-grown from the bench like the Incredible Hulk bursting his lab coat, a great green monster that sucked carbon dioxide from the air and sprouted wood, pissed oil, and shat diamonds. — Ken MacLeod

I guess I don't like the people in politics very much, to be blunt. — Nate Silver

When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier. — Edmund Hillary

The Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued reams of playground regulations and actually gone so far as to recommend against "tripping hazards, like tree stumps and rocks." Maybe we should just bulldoze the local parks and put in a couple of blobs ... made of plastic. — Lenore Skenazy

We have to learn to remind the other parents who think we're being careless when we loosen our grip that we are actually trying to teach our children how to get along in the world, and that we believe this is our job. A child who can fend for himself is a lot safer than one forever coddled, because the coddled child will not have Mom or Dad around all the time, even though they act as if he will. — Lenore Skenazy

You don't remember the times your dad held your handle bars. You remember the day he let go. — Lenore Skenazy

A child who thinks he can't do anything on his own eventually can't. — Lenore Skenazy

I enjoy painting and can copy almost anything. — Vinny Guadagnino

No times were more dangerous than when our country was born, when revolution was our midwife. — Daniel Inouye

At the last moment, Kellan swerved around him, quickly leaving the zombie behind.
"Why didn't you just hit him?" Jayden asked, turning to look behind us as we sped away. I did, too. The zombie spun around as he immediately started to follow us.
"I didn't want to mess up my paint job," Kellan sarcastically replied as he turned on the street that would lead us to the store. "Plus, I just washed it. — Rose Wynters

America's been very, very good to me. I've been very lucky and worked a lot there, and appreciate and love the work that I've done. — Clive Owen

I should never have loved him . I should never love anyone because it ends up being worse than being alone. — Brian James