Inspiring Growing Up Quotes for Every Stage of Life - page 163
living with a teenage daughter is like living with the Taliban a mum is not allowed to laugh, sing, dance or wear short skirts
Kathy Lette
I'm kind of glad that I was able to properly grow up before becoming a massive movie star.
Adam Rayner
John K. Samson is fluent in the inexpressible. Find him on the page or find him in the ether-just find him
Alissa York
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Torture is senseless violence, born in fear... torture costs human lives but does not save them. We would almost be too lucky if these crimes were the work of savages: the truth is that torture makes torturers.
Computer mediation seems to bathe action in a more conditional light: perhaps it happened; perhaps it didn't. Without the layeredrichness of direct sensory engagement, the symbolic medium seems thin, flat, and fragile.
Shoshana Zuboff
We were born in a dark age out of due time (for us). But there is this comfort: otherwise we should not know, or so much love, what we do love. I imagine the fish out of water is the only fish to have an inkling of water.
Poor management can increase software costs more rapidly than any other factor. Particularly on large projects, each of the following mismanagement actions has often been responsible for doubling software development costs.
Barry Boehm
Anthropologists have promulgated the myth of the peaceful savage so effectively that when actual deaths by war are tabulated for prestate simple societies, one is astonished by how such a notion can continue to be taught to students.
Lloyd deMause
More idiots should just shut their mouths.
Chris Martin
Within 18 months of my parents' marriage in 1900, my mother fell in love with an Englishman who would have described himself as a gentleman but who was, in fact, nothing more than a devious adventurer.
Paul Mellon
Any astronomer can predict with absolute accuracy just where every star in the universe will be at 11.30 tonight. He can make no such prediction about his teenage daughter.
James Truslow Adams
I'm afraid you can't create tragedy out of abnormal psychology.
Andrew Sarris
The art of using moderate abilities to advantage often brings greater results than actual brilliance
It's very nice having my mum as my agent. You know that she's always doing what's best for you.
Freddie Highmore
The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
A well-cultivated mind is, so to speak, made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only one single mind which has been educated during all this time.
Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
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What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance.
Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
