"one blow in anger [would] kill, probably, a child from aged two to eight. Those over eight would take two blows to kill."

-- Patricia Highsmith

#Children Quotes #Blow Quotes #Two Quotes

“Giving governors more leeway in administering health care could represent a small, positive development in the ongoing saga of Obamacare. Unfortunately, instead of choosing flexibility, President Obama and his left-leaning advisers always default to rigid 'Washington knows best' answers.”
“I told my therapist I was having nightmares about nuclear explosions. He said don't worry it's not the end of the world.”
“Dare to walk the path that others have feared to travel, and a leader shall then be born.”
“Since her retirement from teaching Miss Beryl's health had in many respects greatly improved, despite her advancing years. An eighth-grade classroom was an excellent place to snag whatever was in the air in the way of illness. Also depression, which, Miss Beryl believed, in conjunction with guilt, opened the door to illness. Miss Beryl didn't know any teachers who weren't habitually guilty and depressed-guilty they hadn't accomplished more with their students, depressed that very little more was possible.”
“So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!”
“I don't have one role that I'm particularly fond of doing, and I don't really look for it to differ all the time, but I will try anything and do anything. If it's a role I connect with, I'll go for it, no matter what's involved.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“For the author there is nothing but his pen, till that and life are worn to the stump: and then, with good fortune, perhaps on his death-bed he receives a pension and equals, it may be, for a few months, the income of a retired butler!”
“All stress inhibits true and effective learning.”

Source : "Speak French with Michel Thomas" by Michel Thomas, Disc 1, March 29, 2001.

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