E. M. Delafield Quotes
A child with an intense capacity for feeling can suffer to a degree that is beyond any degree of adult suffering, because imagination, ignorance, and the conviction of utter helplessness are untempered either by reason or by experience.E. M. Delafield
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In 2012, I was over the moon to be there, especially as it was our home Olympics. It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience, and I just wanted to take everything in.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
This is part of what's driving me, is this feeling like there's so much yet to be discovered in the oceans, and we're destroying it before we even know what's in it.
Edith Widder -
My husband and I, when we had our five children and they were grown, we thought we were entitled to grandchildren. And so we were just expecting this to happen; of course, nothing was happening. And then we kept begging, bribing, cajoling, anything - threatening to adopt our own grandchildren - and finally, we got some grandchildren.
Nancy Pelosi -
Since I was a child, I have had this feeling that the most important work I'd do would be with my family.
Vincent Cassel -
Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
Laura Ingalls Wilder -
These years after my liberation were years of reconstruction, and I think I made the right decisions... I mean, I lost everything: my life; my father died; I didn't know anything about my children.
Ingrid Betancourt
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Do our children now have to choose between getting an education and dying? Some of us cannot move on and accept that kind of society.
Obiageli Ezekwesili -
Experience is what you get while looking for something else.
Federico Fellini -
A lot of the time we think finances are immediately linked to experience, opportunities, image, and all sorts of important things that can progress us in life. Sometimes they're not. Finances can be completely irrelevant if you allow yourself to feel like things are going well.
Natalia Kills -
For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
Most Muslim women know it is fear and curiosity that cause people to stare. They know it is ignorance and stereotypes that cause people to suppose that a piece of material covering the hair strips a woman of the ability to speak English, pursue a career, work a remote control.
Randa Abdel-Fattah -
What people don't realize is that Tinder built a brand on more than the experience of the swipe.
Sam Yagan
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Children up to the age of seven are like sponges. They look up to adults and copy what they do. So I thought if I could create a positive role model - a superhero, if you like - who moves around and has a balanced lifestyle - then they would be motivated to move more.
Magnus Scheving -
I like children - fried.
W. C. Fields -
I believed that old people never laughed. I thought they sighed a lot and groaned. They walked with sticks, and they didn't like children on bicycles or roller skates... or with big dogs.
Maeve Binchy -
Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.
Fergie The Black Eyed Peas -
I did theatre all my life and then went into the film world. I then kind of segued into TV land, which is a different experience.
T. J. Thyne -
Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.
Flannery O'Connor
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As part of Social Security reform, I believe that private savings accounts are a part of it - along the lines that President Bush proposed.
John McCain -
I get pigeonholed into type-A personality characters, but I'm really not type A. I'm kind of a spaz.
Alison Brie -
I would be happy to have a gay child. He would be a Boy Scout, and he would teach all the other Boy Scouts how to build a fire with two sticks and a back-handed compliment.
Margaret Cho -
I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions.
Hermann Hesse -
In my eyes, concepts of theology have only as much value as they are able to interpret experience. It seems to me that we have long reached the point where we theologians only talk to ourselves and debate with our own history of concepts.
Eugen Drewermann -
A child with an intense capacity for feeling can suffer to a degree that is beyond any degree of adult suffering, because imagination, ignorance, and the conviction of utter helplessness are untempered either by reason or by experience.
E. M. Delafield