"Over the years, Iâ€™ve worried that my directness could come off as brusque or my criticisms heard in an outsize way, especially by male colleagues. I sometimes wondered whether expressing even my mildest reservation reminded someone of a chastising mother or complaining wife."

-- Jill Abramson

#Mother Quotes #Years Quotes #Wife Quotes

“Unions should not be lapdogs to a political party, they should be watchdogs for their members interests.”

Source : "Andy Stern Laments Washington Politics But Scoffs At Idea Of Running For Office" by Sam Stein, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2010.
“If e-mail had been around before the telephone was invented, people would have said, 'Hey, forget e-mail! With this new telephone invention I can actually talk to people!'.”
“I feel like it's really kind of a sit-down album, much in the same way I imagine Billie Holiday or someone sitting down in the studio and singing.”
“I stood on the balcony dark with mourning... hoping the earth would spread its wings in my uninhabited love.”
“A dentist is only half the doctor he claims to be,”

Source : "To Rise Again At A Decent Hour". Book by Joshua Ferris, www.npr.org. May 13, 2014.
“Conflict follows wrongdoing as surely as flies follow the herd.”
“A clean heart can see God, can speak to God, and can see the love of God in others.”
“Suddenly all those careful preparations disintegrated as predators far more dangerous than the walking dead proved what all wise killers already knew: that nothing was more dangerous than living men.”

Source : Jonathan Maberry (2014). “Fire & Ash”, p.241, Simon and Schuster

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