How can we help a child change from undependable to dependable, from a mediocre student to a capable student, from someone who won...'t amount to very much to someone who will count for something. The answer is at once both simple and complicated: We treat a child as if he already is what we would like him to become.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those o...f the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is from her father that she begins to infer messages that will linger a lifetime--"I am, or am not, considered by men to be pre...tty, desirable, valuable, dependent, weak, strong, dim-witted, brilliant"; "Men are, or are not, trustworthy, loving, predatory, dependable, available, dangerous."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They're two good old friends of mine. I call them Constitution and The Bill of Rights. A most dependable team for long journeys. T...hen I've got another one called Missouri Compromise. And a Supreme Court--a fine, dignified horse, though you have to push him on every now and then.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »