Alyson Richman Quotes

We wore that grief like one wears one's underclothes. An invisible skin, unseen to prying eyes, but knitted to us all the same. We wore it every day.

Alyson Richman

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• When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Life
  • Yourself
  • Tough

• We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Society
  • Culture
  • Moral

• We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Free
  • Hate
  • Authority

• Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Lord
  • Created
  • Sins

• I'm not looking for a 'yes' woman, but a strong person who knows when to be objective and when not to be.

  

  OMI
  • Strong
  • Woman
  • Looking

• 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

• I have three young kids and a great family. I love hanging out with them more than anything.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Great
  • Family
  • Love

• As a society we should be encouraging people out of the debt-culture mindset, not promoting it.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • People
  • Society
  • Culture

• The last thing I want my child to see is Dad running around in the middle of the pack. That would really upset me. And that would upset him. I would be embarrassed to take him to school with kids saying, 'Hey, how'd your dad do this weekend?' 'Well, he finished fifth or sixth'.

  

  Dan Wheldon
  • School
  • Kids
  • Dad

• I kind of spooked myself about getting older. It's not that bad really.

  

  Ed Kowalczyk
  • Bad

• Where there is a sufficient social movement of self-reliant communities, there can be political change. There must be political change.

  

  Jerry Brown
  • Political

• The statistics might have a Eurosceptic cast, but they are not exactly a fun read. Few of us want to wade through ONS graphs or European Commission tables.

  

  Daniel Hannan
  • Fun

• In countries around the world, people spend more money on food because they know how precious it is.

  

  Alice Waters
  • People
  • World
  • Money

• I think it is fair to say that during World War II there was a high sense of purpose. The country had a very clear vision of its own standing, of its own morality. It was not an ambiguous time. Today, we live in a world that is highly ambiguous, very fractured, with many of the historical, traditional values in a state of collapse, really.

  

  Friedrich St. Florian
  • Time
  • World
  • Live

• The more you practice, the better you get, the more freedom you have to create.

  

  Jocko Willink
  • Freedom
  • Practice

• I come from very humble origins, so the last thing I would ever do is to look down my nose at people who can't afford to come here to my shop.

  

  Bruce Oldfield
  • People
  • Humble

• I get very envious of my general news colleagues who are always being handed sexy new stuff like global warming, China, and Donald Trump, while my sports colleagues and I must be eternally satisfied with the same old home-court advantage, soccer, and momentum.

  

  Frank Deford
  • Home
  • Sports
  • Trump

• I wanted to go to NYU because I thought that was my best path to glory. I figured it was safer to move into the acting world in New York while I was living in a dorm.

  

  Danielle Schneider
  • World
  • Path

• The Brady Act was passed in response to what Congress described as an 'epidemic of gun violence.'

  

  David Souter
  • Violence
  • Gun

• 'Britain's Got Talent' just gave me that platform that I needed to share that with the world and be recognized, and now I'm able to travel the world and sing my music in places I never thought I'd visit - Dubai, Mexico, Brazil, so many different places.

  

  Anzia Yezierska
  • Different
  • Places
  • Britain

• It was as if all the scenes of my life were running through my brain like a pack of dogs running through the streets, dogs running and running, unable to stop even though they were tired.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Running
  • Brain
  • Tired

• There is no struggle too vast, no odds too overwhelming, for even should we fail - should we fall - we will know that we have lived.

  

  Steven Erikson
  • Struggle
  • Fail
  • Lived

• We wore that grief like one wears one's underclothes. An invisible skin, unseen to prying eyes, but knitted to us all the same. We wore it every day.

  

  Alyson Richman
  • Grief
  • Wears
  • Underclothes