I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust ...your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A major misunderstanding of child rearing has been the idea that meeting a child's needs is an end in itself, for the purpose of t...he child's mental health. Mothers have not understood that this is but one step in social development, the goal of which is to help a child begin to consider others. As a result, they often have not considered their children but have instead allowed their children's reality to take precedence, out of a fear of damaging them emotionally.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You do me wrong to take me out o' th' grave: Thou art a soul in bliss, but I am bound... Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine;Mthey are the life, the soul of reading!--take them out of this book, for instance,--...you might as well take the book along with them;Mone cold external winter would reign in every page of it; restore them to the writer;Mhe steps forth like a bridegroom,--bids All-hail; brings in variety, and forbids the appetite to fail.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Well, kid, there are more things in this life than you can possibly imagine. I knew a whore once in Wilmington. She had a glass ey...e. She used to take it out and work people off for a dollar.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... married women work and neglect their children because the duties of the homemaker become so depreciated that women feel compel...led to take a job in order to hold the respect of the community. It is one thing if women work, as many of them must, to help support the family. It is quite another thing--it is destructive of woman's freedom--if society forces her out of the home and into the labor market in order that she may respect herself and gain the respect of others.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This nation will remain a neutral nation, but I cannot ask that every American remain neutral in thought as well. Even a neutral h...as a right to take account of facts, even a neutral cannot be asked to close his mind or close his conscience. I have said not once but many times that I have seen war and that I hate war; I say that again and again. I hope the United States will keep out of this war, I believe that it will. And I give you assurance and reassurance that every effort of your government will be directed toward that end. As long as it remains within my power to prevent there will be no blackout of peace in the United States.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »