Tickenham Quotes & Sayings

American Psychological Association, the girlie-girl culture's emphasis on beauty and play-sexiness can increase girls' vulnerability to the pitfalls that most concern parents: depression, eating disorders, distorted body image, risky sexual behavior. — Peggy Orenstein

My closet is full of sad little scripts that didn't get made that have sad endings. It's very hard to get a movie made that has a sad ending. — Nora Ephron

A successful marriage isn't necessarily one that lasts until you're dead. — Ellen Barkin

I am constantly asked: What can you, with your cold rationalism, offer to the seeker after salvation that is comparable to the cozy homelike comfort of a fenced-in dogmatic creed? To this the answer is many-sided.
First, I do not say that I can offer as much happiness as is to be obtained by the abdication of reason. I do not say that I can offer as much happiness as is to be obtained from drink or drugs or amassing great wealth by swindling widows and orphans. It is not the happiness of the individual convert that concerns me; it is the happiness of mankind. If you genuinely desire the happiness of mankind, certain forms of ignoble personal happiness are not open to you. If your child is ill, and you are a conscientious parent, you accept medical diagnosis, however doubtful and discouraging; if you accept the cheerful opinion of a quack and your child consequently dies, you are not excused by the pleasantness of belief in the quack while it lasted. — Bertrand Russell

Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down. — Malcolm X

But things are so bad, I feel like I'm going to explode if I don't do something. — Margaret Peterson Haddix

Team within the United States, such operations had to be kept secret because the CIA was prohibited by its Charter from carrying out operations in the United States. — Colin A. Ross

[The pamphlet] was very patriotic. That is, it talked about killing foreigners. — Terry Pratchett

It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy. — Mercy Otis Warren

Jesus that I know as my Redeemer cannot be less than God. — Athanasius

If we turn to early Irish literature, as we naturally may, to see what sort of people the Irish were in the infancy of the race, we find ourselves wandering in delighted bewilderment through a darkness shot with lightning and purple flame. — Sean O Faolain

Marx, however imperfectly he worked out the details, set himself the task of discovering the law of motion of capitalism, and if there is any hope of progress in economics at all, it must be in using academic methods to solve the problems posed by Marx. — Joan Robinson