"When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the street, I always hope he's dead."

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Source : Judith Viorst (2014). “When Did I Stop Being Twenty and Other Injustices”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

Judith Viorst

#Women Quotes #Lying Quotes #Dinner Quotes

“... it is the spirit of trade unionism that is most important, the service of fellowship, the feeling that the hurt of one is the concern of all and that the work of the individual benefits all.”

Source : Rose Schneiderman, Lucy Goldthwaite (1967). “All for one”
“If we stand for change, we can spark a popular movement with power, influence, magic and genius.”

Source : Van Jones (2008). “The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems”, HarperOne
“Everybody seems to have given up hope of trying. I haven't. It isn't easy and it isn't supposed to be, but I'm accomplishing something. How many people give up a lot to do something good. I'm sure we would have found a cure for cancer 20 years ago if we had really tried”
“The conservative media game was neatly summarized by Matt Labash, a former senior writer for The Weekly Standard, in a 2003 interview on the website journalismjobs.com. Labash explained: 'The conservative media likes to rap the liberal media on the knuckles for not being objective. We've created this cottage industry in which it pays to be un-objective. It's a great way to have your cake and eat it too. Criticize other people for not being objective. Be as subjective as you want. It's a great little racket.'”
“Describing some kinds of feelings comes across as too excessive in the first person. If you put it in the third person, you're taking a little bit of a distance, and that way it becomes more apprehensible to a viewer. You're always riding this fine line of risking saying too much, do you know what I mean? When you feel you're in that area, if you shift the address a little bit it can alter it.”
“The Spirit speaks directly to our hearts through music. That's why music has always had such power to move people into positive action.”
“Effective negotiators have a style that those whom they are trying to influence, relate to and admire.”
“It was mind-blowing. It was a small place with 2,000 standing-up tickets. It's great to have your band back and working and playing again, people have been so generous.”

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