Carolyn Hax (Carolyn Hanley Hax) Quotes

There is a difference between your parents' not reporting to you everything they do and keeping secrets from you.

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• I want to see sunrises in the mountains. You never get to see such things enough in a lifetime. I want to see more.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Want
  • Enough
  • Mountains

• A spiritual partnership is a partnership between equals for the purpose of spiritual growth. Spiritual partners use their delightful experiences together as well as their power struggles to learn about themselves and change themselves.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Power
  • Together
  • Change

• I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Good
  • You
  • Chance

• It is not surprising, then, that in the decade since Oslo began, Arafat used all the resources placed at his disposal to fan the flames of hatred against Israel.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Israel
  • Hatred
  • Decade

• 'Trolls' was a blank slate - there was no world, no mythology. We talked a lot about the Grinch and we liked how they showed his heart growing, but how do you show a photographable device like that for the Bergens? We ended up using color for a lot of that: desaturating and then pulling the saturation up.

  

  Walt Dohrn
  • Up
  • World
  • Heart

• By flattening time and space, social computing and business is unlocking credible potential within business. For example, individuals and organizations that weren't connected before are now connected together.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Time
  • Business
  • Together

• I write entirely in English; Tagalog chauvinists chide me for this. I feel no guilt in doing so. But I am sad that I cannot write in my native Ilokano. History demanded this; if it isn't English I am using now, I would most probably be writing in Spanish like Rizal, or even German or Japanese.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Writing
  • History
  • English

• You want entertainment in general, every aspect of it, to be more of a reflection of the diverse world that we live in.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • World
  • Live
  • Reflection

• In a culture defined by shades of gray, I think the absolute black and white choices in dark young adult novels are incredibly satisfying for readers.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Black
  • Culture
  • Dark

• You don't want to treat any one person as oracular.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Want
  • You
  • Treat

• If you leave me waiting 'round for hours and then call on me to do something, I need to be able to do it straight away. That's my job, like your job is to do what you do.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Job
  • Me
  • Waiting

• After six wonderful years playing Emily Prentiss, I have decided it's time for me to move on. As much as I will miss my 'Criminal Minds' family, I am excited about the future and other opportunities.

  

  Paget Brewster
  • Time
  • Family
  • Future

• I'm not the kind of guy who has best friends.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Friends
  • Guy
  • Kind

• Music is organized sound.

  

  Edgard Varese
  • Music
  • Sound
  • Organized

• I enjoy every second I'm in the gym. I love to challenge myself, push myself; obviously there's a lot of different routines and a lot of different stuff we do - love cycling, and again, it's part of my lifestyle.

  

  Camilo Villegas
  • Different
  • Love
  • Myself

• Pollution from human activities is changing the Earth's climate. We see the damage that a disrupted climate can do: on our coasts, our farms, forests, mountains, and cities. Those impacts will grow more severe unless we start reducing global warming pollution now.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Earth
  • Start
  • Grow

• They agreed to have their volunteers and vendors and everyone park off site and they were going to provide a shuttle to bring them back and forth.

  

  Joe Davis
  • Volunteers
  • Shuttle
  • Vendors

• Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Heart
  • Small
  • Gratitude

• Be fair with others, but then keep after them until they're fair with you.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Keep
  • Fair

• Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don't realize what messages they are sending.

  

  Virginia Satir
  • Children
  • Giving
  • Action

• Negotiating the adolescent stage is neither quick nor easy. . . . I have often said to parents, "If it isn't illegal, immoral, orfattening, give it your blessing." We do much better . . . if we find and support all the places we can appropriately say yes, and say only the no's that really matter.

  

  Virginia Satir
  • Giving
  • Support
  • Parent

• Desertion is the army's dirty little secret. Since the beginning of the Iraq war, more than 20,000 American soldiers have given up the fight. Most of them disappear while at home on leave, fading into a network of family and friends, and the army does not typically chase them down.

  

  Wil S. Hylton
  • Friends
  • American
  • Secret

• The secret of life is balance, and the absence of balance is life's destruction.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • Life
  • Balance
  • Secret

• There is a difference between your parents' not reporting to you everything they do and keeping secrets from you.

  

  Carolyn Hax
  • Secret
  • Parent