Eda LeShan Quotes
Most of us carry into marriage not only our childlike illusions, but we bring to it as well the demand that it has to be wonderful, because it's supposed to be.
Quotes to Explore
-
The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
-
I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
-
Playing the good guy is tough because you know as well as I do, in real life, you have to watch your P's and Q's and conduct yourself in a respectable manner if you expect to have friends.
-
If you think Wall Street has a short memory, you're dead wrong. No, the folks who work on Wall Street, regulate Wall Street - and, above all, invest in its wares, notably its hedge funds - don't have a bad memory. They don't have any memory at all.
-
We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.
-
To discover the true principles of Morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods: They have need only of common sense.
-
I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.
-
I've always known that I'll have a career for the rest of my life because they'll always make movies about men, and men need women in their lives. But, when it comes to telling a woman's story, they're complex, circular, and not genre-driven.
-
Customers are enormously punishing when companies don't meet their expectations.
-
It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
-
When you try to find funding for a VVA function, it doesn't seem like it's any trouble at all. People come out of the woodwork with their money to help out because we went over and fought a war.
-
Studies have proven that early childhood education returns to society as much as $12 for every dollar invested. Our goal is to identify the most important development opportunities for children five years and younger, providing insight to transform early childhood education from a social policy issue into an economic imperative.
-
Mass layoffs produce big winners and losers. Most workers who remain are financially unscathed, even though their employer is struggling.
-
There's no way to reconcile Islam with Christianity. This difference of opinion admits of compromise as much as a coin toss does.
-
Television is a visual medium. You have to create some kind of visual interest. And it's entertainment for your eyes.
-
That's my mentality. Just because somebody has fouled me, there is no reason for me to be nasty to him. I try to respect football as much as possible, and when someone is injured, you put the ball out.
-
My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.
-
I raised my kids kind of old-fashioned - if you don't have something nice to say, then don't say it at all. I teach love, acceptance, and tolerance... I sometimes think that this generation is lacking in decency.
-
I ran for public office to do something good.
-
There is only one thing in life which never changes, and it is change.
-
This isn't about grabbing people's guns; this isn't about changing the Second Amendment. This simply says that someone who is on the terrorist watch list - a dangerous terrorist - should not be able to purchase a gun.
-
The Rough Riders brought honor to San Antonio by winning battles in Cuba throughout the summer of 1898, and Roosevelt became a Texas folk hero overnight.
-
Even prior to marriage and motherhood, it's always been about prioritising and focusing on what you can commit to. That's been my approach to every aspect of my life, be it my relationships or my professional commitments.
-
Most of us carry into marriage not only our childlike illusions, but we bring to it as well the demand that it has to be wonderful, because it's supposed to be.
