Carolyn Hax (Carolyn Hanley Hax) Quotes

Your parents' views are, by current standards, out there. Getting in their faces about it would be needlessly disrespectful, but there's no reason for you to tiptoe through their delusional little terrarium as if you can't bend even one blade of grass.

Carolyn Hax

• Reason
• Disrespectful
• Delusional

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• The only reason that it takes me seven years to do stuff is because I just don't really have a plan.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Reason
  • Stuff
  • Plan

• The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it – I don't need to believe it.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Believe
  • Know
  • Reason

• Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Reason
  • Step
  • Where

• The reason we love our parents is because they loved us first. Every single company should take this advice.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Parents
  • Reason
  • Advice

• No one knows quite the reason, but surgically severing the corpus callosum can reduce the rate and intensity of seizures. So in the early 1960s, a few patients with severe epilepsy had their corpus callosums cut, turning them into split-brain people.

  

  Sam Kean
  • People
  • Reason
  • Brain

• We have no reason to suppose that we are the Creator's last word.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Reason
  • Word
  • Creator

• This life is for us to discover the divine within. And that's really the key to life in many ways for me. And the thing is, it's not for us to reason why everything is what it is... just do it.

  

  John Roy Anderson Yes
  • Life
  • Why
  • Reason

• I do about 90 percent of my own stunts, and the things I can't do for insurance reasons, like swinging out of a flying helicopter, I wouldn't want to do anyway.

  

  LL Cool J
  • Want
  • Reason
  • Flying

• A bad feeling is a commotion of the mind repugnant to reason, and against nature.

  

  Zeno of Citium
  • Mind
  • Bad
  • Nature

• There's really quite a beautiful marriage between Milady's ingenuity and D'Artagnan's immaturity. When they first meet, she's trying to frame him. She's using him for a certain reason. They haven't just met by coincidence. She's singled him out for a reason. She knows that she can almost make D'Artagnan do what she wants to, and that's when D'Artagnan's immaturity comes out.

  

  Luke Pasqualino
  • Trying
  • She
  • Beautiful

• For some reason, Horror movies, they seem like good date movies. When you go to them it's all high school kids, all over each other, running up and down the isles, no one is even looking at the screen anyways, they figure they don't have to pay attention to the story anyways. We scream and yell... it's like mayhem.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Up
  • Good
  • School

• The reason we are so pleased to find other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Attention
  • Reason

• The reason man does not experience his true cultural self is that until he experiences another self as valid he has little basis for validating his own self.

  

  Edward T. Hall
  • Experience
  • True
  • Reason

• The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Reason
  • Afraid
  • Terror

• In the beginning, I started doing portraits of children, and of course, children have large eyes. For some reason, they just started getting bigger and bigger. Then, when I started painting imaginary children rather than real ones, they became bigger still.

  

  Margaret Keane
  • Children
  • Real
  • Eyes

• Forced to recognize our inhumanity, our reason coexists with our insanity. And though we choose between reality and madness, it's either sadness or euphoria.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Reality
  • Reason
  • Recognize

• Problems are challenges to creative minds. Without problems, there would be little reason to think at all.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Mind
  • Reason
  • Challenge

• I no longer idolize reason. I have come to accept that ninety percent of what we do is irrational and that we spend what little rational thought we have in justifying our irrationality.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Reason
  • Accepting
  • Rational

• One should not quarrel with a dog without a reason sufficient to vindicate one through all the courts of morality.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Reason
  • Dog
  • Morality

• I'm extremely profane, unconsciously so, when I see something great for the first time; I don't know why, but beauty and profanity are related to me in the same way. It may be that I want to think of art in the vernacular, but I have no control over what comes out of my mouth when my eyes take in great beauty...it might just be the reason I avoid going to museums with elderly ladies.

  

  Vincent Price
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Reason

• Tell everyone you know: "My happiness depends on me, so you're off the hook." And then demonstrate it. Be happy, no matter what they're doing. Practice feeling good, no matter what. And before you know it, you will not give anyone else responsibility for the way you feel-and then, you'll love them all. Because the only reason you don't love them, is because you're using them as your excuse to not feel good.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Responsibility
  • Reason
  • Happiness

• The rearing of children is considered too important to be left to the individual and should be the responsibility of the state.

  

  Jostein Gaarder
  • Children
  • Responsibility
  • State

• Your parents' views are, by current standards, out there. Getting in their faces about it would be needlessly disrespectful, but there's no reason for you to tiptoe through their delusional little terrarium as if you can't bend even one blade of grass.

  

  Carolyn Hax
  • Reason
  • Disrespectful
  • Delusional