The differences between the President and the Prime Minister were at least in one respect something more than the obvious differen...ces of national character, education, and even temperament. For all his sense of history, his large, untroubled, easy-going style of life, his unshakable feeling of personal security, his natural assumption of being at home in the great world far beyond the confines of his own country, Roosevelt was a typical child of the twentieth century and of the New World; while Churchill for all his love of the present hour, his unquenchable appetite for new knowledge, his sense of the technological possibilities of our time, and the restless roaming of his fancy in considering how they might be most imaginatively applied, despite his enthusiasm for Basic English, or the siren suit which so upset his hosts in Moscow--despite all this, Churchill remains a European of the nineteenth century.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ask a wise man to dinner and he'll upset everyone by his gloomy silence or tiresome questions. Invite him to a dance and you'll ha...ve a camel prancing about. Haul him off to a public entertainment and his face will be enough to spoil the people's entertainment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We must learn to differentiate between fears and anxieties. Fears are states of apprehension which focus on isolated and recogniza...ble dangers so that they may be judiciously appraised and realistically countered. Anxieties are diffuse states of tension (caused by a loss of mutual regulation and a consequent upset in libidinal and aggressive controls) which magnify and even cause the illusion of an outer danger, without pointing to appropriate avenues of defense or mastery. These two forms of apprehension obviously often occur together, and we can insist on a strict separation only for the sake of the present argument. If, in an economic depression, a man is afraid that he may lose his money, his fear may be justified. But if the idea of having to live on an income only ten times, instead of twenty-five times as large as that of his average fellow-citizen causes him to lose his nerve and to commit suicide, then we must consult our clinical formulas.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
People that make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children but t...heir little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but t...heir little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I tell people that when my son was this age, all of the things he did that really aggravated me and got me upset were things that,... from the standpoint of healthy child development, I wanted him to do. I just didn't want him to do them to me, or at those particular moments!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »