Youth Care Worker Quotes & Sayings

He was someone who had to live alone, someone who found it difficult to be with others for any length of time, because he only had one mode - that discreet art of withdrawal which had, no doubt, taken him years to perfect. He had no other strategies for getting along with people and, though his colleagues probably saw this as the mark of a gentle, erudite, considerate soul, I was suddenly able to see right through it. Not because I was so very perceptive, but because I was so like him. He had been living in that one mode for so long, he had almost forgotten about it, but I was a near-beginner, and for me it was painfully obvious. — John Burnside

As a speller he was adrift in a no-man's-land between phonetic and dyslexic. — Nell Zink

Faith and reason are the shoes on your feet. You can travel further with both than you can with just one. — J. Michael Straczynski

As the doctor said, When a fifty-eight-year-old man goes downtown dressed up in a Dale Evans cowgirl outfit, complete with a skirt with fringe, it's time ... — Fannie Flagg

With the exception of lingerie and theater I'm interested in everything to do with clothes and perfumes: everything which is an extension of woman. — Sonia Rykiel

They would be remembered for a moment then would be forgotten as if they had never walked the earth. — Ed Wood

Sadism ... is a massive cultural fact that appeared precisely at the end of the eighteenth century and that constitutes one of the greatest conversions of the occidental imagination ... madness of desire, the insane delight of love and death in the limitless presumption of appetite. — Michel Foucault

I know there is no point in haranguing him because he will just shut down, but I want to cover every angle. — David Sheff