"I have been fiercely private, in part because I could never understand how a journalist could be otherwise. I was also the mother of small children, and security concerns were paramount."

-- Jane Pauley

#Mother Quotes #Children Quotes #Concern Quotes

“You've all heard some rumors about me over the years. I guess this is the moment to do it. My name is Richard Gere and I am a l*sbian.”
“Sometimes you never feel meaner than the moment you stop being mean.”

Source : Rebecca Stead (2010). “When You Reach Me/First Light”, p.160, Wendy Lamb Books
“Purpose is when you know and understand what you were born to accomplish. Vision is when you see it in your mind and begin to imagine it”
“Lastly (and this is, perhaps, the golden rule), no woman should marry a man who does not smoke.”
“I asked my date what she wanted to drink. She said, 'Oh, I guess I'll have Champagne.' I said, 'Guess again.'”
“The prudential regulation that I have put in place has been absolutely critical. The fiscal policy which we have put in place has been absolutely critical and if people looked at Australia now turn its back on economic reform, which of course industrial relations rollback or throwback would be, let me tell you, that would really start affecting confidence.”

Source : "The World Today" with Chris Uhlmann, ministers.treasury.gov.au. August 16, 2007.
“It is nobody's right to be waited on and nobody's fate to do the waiting.”
“Dissident Natan Sharansky writes that there are two kinds of states -- "fear societies" and "free societies," two kinds of consciousness. The consciousness derived of oppression is despairing, fatalistic, and fearful of inquiry. It is mistrustful of the self and forced to trust external authority. It is premised on a dearth of self-respect. It is cramped. In contrast, the consciousness of freedom is one of expansiveness, trust of the self, and hope. It is a consciousness of limitless inquiry. It builds up in a citizen a wealth of self-respect.”

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