"Having small children and being an investigative reporter would seem like a difficult mix, but it worked well for me. I was often working on my own enterprise stories, which were not as deadline sensitive."

-- Jill Abramson

#Children Quotes #Stories Quotes #Sensitive Quotes

“Unlike the rationalism of the French Revolution, true liberalism has no quarrel with religion, and I can only deplore the militant and essentially illiberal antireligionism which animated so much of nineteenth-century Continental liberalism. ... What distinguishes the liberal from the conservative here is that, however profound his own spiritual beliefs, he will never regard himself as entitled to impose them on others and that for him the spiritual and the temporal are different sphere which ought not to be confused.”
“You try to be good, to be good and loving and nice and not hard, not tough, a sweet nice girl, not ugly, not full of ugliness, but people make it impossible.”
“Our hearts are breaking... We are lonely and deserted, sad and sick.”
“Be careful about wanting what others have. There is always a price. Perhaps God didnâ€™t give it to you, because He knew you wouldnâ€™t be able to pay it.”
“We're supposed to take our problems to a family adviser. Personally, I've never met a family adviser. They're all off somewhere listening to dirty stories.”
“The Human Condition being, basically, that weâ€™re alive and have access to beauty, can even erratically create it, but will someday be dead and will not.”
“You know, I found out recently that the word "heretic" comes from the Greek word "airetikÃ³s", meaning "able to choose" - which pretty much says it all, don't you think?”

Source : YouTube Channel "Pat Condell"/"The Arrogance Of Clergy", www.youtube.com. October 02, 2009.
“I love fantasy. I love horror. I love musicals. Whatever doesn't really happen in life is what I'm interested in. As a way of commenting on everything that does happen in life, because ultimately the only thing I'm really interested in is people.”

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