Frederick Leboyer Quotes

This howling mouth, this head which rolls back and tries to escape.

Frederick Leboyer

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• We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Small
  • Problems
  • Down

• Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Strange
  • Places
  • Far

• There is no reliable way to calculate from the number of recorded compliance issues how many Americans have had their communications improperly collected, stored or distributed by the NSA.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Way
  • Number
  • How

• I remember when 'The Right Stuff' opened in Hollywood. I got dressed that morning and drove my car down to the theatre that it was playing on, thinking that there would be mobs of people outside. When I looked, there was nobody there.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Remember

• It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Important
  • Doing
  • Lose

• I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Want
  • Wisdom
  • Always

• I train to fight five rounds, but if we can end the fight in the first round, it's even better.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • End
  • Fight
  • Train

• If one person is spending all of their income on clothes, travel, hobbies, and entertaining, and one person is saving it, that may not be quite fair if and when you guys split up, depending on what the law is and what you decided to do.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Up
  • May
  • Law

• I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think.

  

  Hal Holbrook
  • Political
  • Feeling
  • Hate

• I work out six days a week. Usually 45 minutes of running, then swimming and weightlifting.

  

  Garrett Neff
  • Work
  • Running
  • Week

• Most of the people who live in Washington come from other places and you can learn something from them.

  

  Sally Quinn
  • People
  • Live
  • Learn

• The year I turned 16, I spent the weeks before Christmas dropping hints to my parents about how much I wanted - no, needed - my own transportation.

  

  Karen Robards
  • Parents
  • Christmas
  • Year

• From one till seven, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese. But I can't speak a word of it now.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Speak
  • Now
  • England

• In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Great
  • America
  • Feeling

• I've gone down to the Jersey Shore every summer since I was born. It's like a second home, and Asbury Park is like the capital - it's the center of all of it. Musically, it's incredible.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Home
  • Summer
  • Down

• No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Soul
  • Christian
  • Egoism

• I have a deep compassion for the idea that it's okay to be myself. The idea that anything 'other' is bad and wrong and broken is so wildly off base.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Bad
  • Myself
  • Deep

• There are two kinds of man: the ones who make history and the ones who endure it.

  

  Camilo Jose Cela
  • History
  • Man
  • Endure

• The hollowing out of the heartland was good for Walmart's bottom line: its slogan might have been an amoral maxim attributed to Lenin - 'The worse, the better.'

  

  George Packer
  • Good

• If there be anything that can render the soul calm, dissipate its scruples and dispel its fears, sweeten its sufferings by the anointing of love, impart strength to all its actions, and spread abroad the joy of the Holy Spirit in its countenance and words, it is this simple and childlike repose in the arms of God.

  

  S. D Gordon
  • God
  • Soul
  • Words

• The best assurance the role of minorities can be given is that they will not be viewed as minorities but as citizens.

  

  Burhan Ghalioun
  • Role
  • Citizens
  • Minorities

• The state in which the ideas existed before being made conscious is called by us repression, and we assert that the force which instituted the repression and maintains it is perceived as resistance during the work of analysis.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Conscious
  • Analysis
  • Existed

• Whatever worked in the past, build on it; whatever didn't work in the past, break the chain that binds you to it.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Work
  • Past
  • Worked

• This howling mouth, this head which rolls back and tries to escape.

  

  Frederick Leboyer