Alice Miller Quotes

Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child.

Alice Miller

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• If we had a terrorist attack, the way the people respond is going to determine whether that attack is just a tragedy or whether that attack becomes an all-out disaster.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • People
  • Just
  • Tragedy

• If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
  • See
  • Wait
  • Monarchy

• I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.

  

  Aby Rosen
  • Art
  • Kids
  • Day

• The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.

  

  L. Sprague de Camp
  • Good
  • Work
  • Long

• Being the vice-captain, you see a lot of things on the field. You have to try and help the captain as much as you can and lead by example on the field. Small things like getting a run-out or taking a catch makes the other boys try and lift their standards. So yes, I do have an important role, even if I'm not captain.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • Important
  • Help
  • Small

• The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Time
  • House
  • Film

• I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Great
  • Political
  • Change

• I don't agree with boarding school. It's not something that I would do with my children, but I think it's something that kind of exists in England in a traditional way, and you do form very close relationships with the girls you go to school with. But it is a strange thing to live in an environment which is solely female.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Live
  • Children
  • School

• Citizens United opened a door that's frustrated anyone who's looking.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Door
  • Looking
  • Citizens

• Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.

  

  Quintilian
  • Evil
  • Broken
  • Habits

• Parenting is tough.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Tough
  • Parenting

• I had a lousy marriage and I drank too much.

  

  Pat Travers
  • Marriage
  • Too Much
  • Much

• Human experience depends on everything that can influence states of the human brain, ranging from changes in our genome to changes in the global economy.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Experience
  • Brain
  • Influence

• I'd love to play a Bond villain. Yeah, I'd love to play a Bond villain. Everyone always says this to me; they always say, 'You've got to be a Bond villain', 'We're going to make you a Bond villain...' But they've never, ever approached me, I've never had a whiff of it. I think I'd love to play a Bond villain; I'd have great fun.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Great
  • Love
  • Fun

• Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Live

• When I do work, I feel the same sort of urgency as I ever did. If I didn't feel that, I don't think I would wish to be doing it. I wouldn't really see the point.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Work
  • Wish
  • Doing

• Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic.

  

  N. Murray Edwards
  • Time
  • Doing
  • Tough

• All of Hollywood was convinced that 'Gone with the Wind' would be a colossal disaster and rather hoped it would be.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Wind
  • Hollywood
  • Disaster

• The Disney archives, it's 84 years of history. The one way in which I feel I'm a kindred spirit with Walt Disney is that neither one of us ever throws anything away. He never threw anything away.

  

  Warren Spector
  • History
  • Never
  • Spirit

• When I take my kid to school, all the parents stop and stare.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • School
  • Kids
  • Parents

• The best way for women to get into cycling is to go out in a group, to feel like you're part of it.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Women
  • Best
  • Group

• They all matter to me, whether I'm working on a Sam Jackson film for a week or I'm the star of my own TV series - I take it all very seriously, and I have a healthy respect for the work in general, despite the role.

  

  Anthony Michael Hall
  • Work
  • Respect
  • Star

• If you see cattle as a source of organic manure, animal energy, as well as milk products, then Indian cattle are not inferior. It is only when you measure them as milk machines that they become inferior. What if we measured the dairy cows of America or Jersey or the Swiss Alps in terms of their work functions? They would be terribly inferior.

  

  Vandana Shiva
  • Work
  • America
  • Energy

• Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child.

  

  Alice Miller
  • Parents
  • Respect
  • Honor