"I am surrounded by counselors. My sister is a counselor. My daughter is training to be a counselor. A lot of my friends are counselors."

-- Sue Townsend

#Mother Quotes #Daughter Quotes #Training Quotes

“If either man or woman would realize that the full power of personal beauty, it must be by cherishing noble thoughts and hopes and purposes; by having something to do and something to live for that is worthy of humanity, and which, by expanding and symmetry to the body which contains it....”
“A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated.”
“Women scheme when they are weak, they lie out of fear. Men scheme when they are strong, they lie out of arrogance.”
“[During the 20th century] ... 170 million men, women, and children have been shot, beaten, tortured, knifed, burned, starved, frozen, crushed, or worked to death; buried alive, drowned, hung, bombed, or killed in any other of the myriad ways governments have inflicted death on unarmed, helpless citizens and foreigners.”
“He made an enormous contribution to British politics in opposition and in government [on Robin Cook]”
“We suffer from a terrible poverty of civic discourse in this country. Surely, it is outside of America's best traditions to send the signal that patriotism is mindless emotion, that leadership is avoiding saying tough things, that citizenship is toeing the line. But such is the result of a lack of openness, our nervousness with debate.”
“If someone tells you something cannot be done; it's just their way of saying they cannot do it”
“I don't like new cars; I'm into vintage cars - there's a Jaguar E-Type in the 'Goldie' video.”

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