Barbara Lerner Spectre Quotes

If you're married to an entrenched non-apologizer, it won't help to doggedly demand one. Some folks lack the self-esteem required to take responsibility for their less than honorable behaviors, feel remorse, and offer a heartfelt apology. And many people are so hard on themselves for the mistakes they make, they don't have the emotional room to admit vulnerability and apologize to a partner. ~ Harriet Lerner

I'm an obsessive. When I get a problem, a question in my mind, it can take me over. ~ Barbara Ehrenreich

The secret to the city is integration. Every area of the city should combine work, leisure and culture. Separate these functions and parts of the city die. ~ Jaime Lerner

Isolation might be more hazardous than splendor. ~ Barbara W. Tuchman

Wisdom - meaning judgment acting on experience, common sense, available knowledge, and a decent appreciation of probability. ~ Barbara Tuchman

His confidence was enviable and maddening. Most of the time she didn't want him to solve or contradict her worries, she just needed him to listen and agree with her on the awfulness at hand. This was a principle of marriage she'd explained many times. ~ Barbara Kingsolver

Health care providers, saving lives daily in our emergency rooms, live with federal mandates. ~ Barbara Ann Radnofsky

We believe in equality for all, and privileges for none. This is a belief that each American regardless of background has equal standing in the public forum, all of us. Because we believe this idea so firmly, we are an inclusive, rather than an exclusive party. Let everybody come. ~ Barbara Jordan

There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh. ~ Barbara Park

Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen-agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall. ~ Max Lerner

The reason why Englishmen are the best husbands in the world is because they want to be faithful. A Frenchman or an Italian will wake up in the morning and wonder what girl he will meet. An Englishman wakes up and wonders what the cricket score is. ~ Barbara Cartland

His one essay in love had exhausted his powers in that direction. ~ Barbara W. Tuchman

Life was life. It happened. You never knew what was going to come at you. Or how you could defend yourself. ~ Barbara Taylor Bradford

You know, I wish the world well. I want Iraq to have democracy and the Haitians to have democracy. I want the people of Afghanistan to thrive. Lord knows, we spend enough money there to help them. What about people at home? Isn't that our first responsibility? ~ Barbara Boxer

Literature duplicates the experience of living in a way that nothing else can, drawing you so fully into another life that you temporarily forget you have one of your own. That is why you read it, and might even sit up in bed till early dawn, trowing your whole tomorrow out of whack, simply to find out what happens to some people who, you know perfectly well, are made up. ~ Barbara Kingsolve

Just tell yourself they're only stories.
Pamela K. Kinney (Spectre Nightmares and Visitations) ~ Pamela K. Kinney

There's nothing like living as a refugee in one's own country to turn a generous soul into a hard little fist. ~ Barbara Kingsolver

I stretched out my hand towards the little bookshelf where I kept cookery and devotional books, the most comfortable bedside reading. ~ Barbara Pym

Waking up Thursday morning to another dreary day and the sense of being physically stuffed, they focused on FISH. While Charlotte interviewed the postmaster about the origin, techniques, and ingredients for his best-in-Maine lobster bakes, Nicole set off to gather recipes for glazed salmon, baked pesto haddock, and cod crusted with marjoram, a minted savory unique to Quinnipeague, and sage. ~ Barbara Delinsky

In 1993, 89 of the 'Fortune' top 100 companies were administering the Myers-Briggs test to their employees. The philosophy behind personality tests is that they don't want you to be in the wrong kind of job. The tests have been completely exposed as nonsense. ~ Barbara Ehrenreich

I can still remember my mum (a voracious, if not discriminating, reader - I have seen everything from the sublime to the ridiculous by her bed, from Ian Rankin and Elmore Leonard to Barbara Cartland and James Patterson) taking me to get my library card when I was four and not yet at school. ~ John Niven

I want to know him. I want to know what he likes, what he doesn't like. I want to know what kind of man he is. I want to know if he could like me for more than sex. ~ Barbara Elsborg

Most people don't really understand what it takes to get a film made, and the struggles .I think anyone who makes a film goes through their own set of struggles. ~ Barbara Broccoli

To be fully human is perhaps why I'm Christian, because I see in the life of Jesus a way of being fully human. ~ Barbara Brown Taylor

Even when light fades and darkness falls--as it does every single day, in every single life--God does not turn the world over to some other deity...Here is the testimony of faith; darkness is not dark to God; the night is as bright as the day. ~ Barbara Brown Taylor

punishment was withholding food. Starvation was the way the regime preferred to eliminate its opponents. It ~ Barbara Demick

Each destination you reach only opens out into wider horizons, new and undiscovered countries for you to explore. ~ Barbara Sher

Kids can be a pain in the neck when they're not a lump in your throat. ~ Barbara Johnson

In America, where the electoral process is drowning in commercial techniques of fund-raising and image-making, we may have completed a circle back to a selection process as unconcerned with qualifications as that which made Darius King of Persia ... he whose horse was the first to neigh at sunrise should be King. ~ Barbara Tuchman

We're a nation with an eating disorder, and we know it. The multiple maladies caused by bad eating are taking a dire toll on our health
most tragically for our kids, who are predicted to be this country's first generation to have a shorter life expectancy than their parents. That alone is a stunning enough fact to give us pause. So is a government policy that advises us to eat more fruits and vegetables, while doling out subsidies not to fruit and vegetable farmers, but to commodity crops destined to become soda pop and cheap burgers. The Farm Bill, as of this writing, could aptly be called the Farm Kill, both for its effects on small farmers and for what it does to us, the consumers who are financing it. ~ Barbara Kingsolver

The islands of Italy combine all the elements - fire, water, earth, and air - and that is irresistible. ~ Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

The women of his family would become one with the earth's creatures only by pressing the bones of whales against their rib cages until breathless. ~ Barbara Kingsolver

Taking responsibility is a step toward redemption. ~ Barbara Delinsky

No one is so sure of his premises as the man who knows too little. ~ Barbara W. Tuchman

I obeyed, so far as to quit the chamber; when, ignorant where the narrow lobbies led, I stood still, and was witness, involuntarily, to a piece of superstition on the part of my landlord which belied, oddly, his apparent sense. He got on to the bed, and wrenched open the lattice, bursting, as he pulled at it, into an uncontrollable passion of tears. 'Come in! come in!' he sobbed. 'Cathy, do come. Oh, do - ONCE more! Oh! my heart's darling! hear me THIS time, Catherine, at last!' The spectre showed a spectre's ordinary caprice: it gave no sign of being; but the snow and wind whirled wildly through, even reaching my station, and blowing out the light. ~ Emily Bronte

Doing your own thing is a generous act. Being gifted creates obligations, which means you owe the world your best effort at the work you love. You too are a natural resource. ~ Barbara Sher

WOMEN ON THEIR OWN RUN in Alice's family. This dawns on her with the unkindness of a heart attack and she sits up in bed to get a closer look at her thoughts, which have collected above her in the dark. ~ Barbara Kingsolver

Buckmester County was in a time warp. ~ Monika Barbara Potocki

It entered the visual vocabulary of photographers, painters and sculptors and focused on what pictures and words look like and what they can mean. ~ Barbara Kruger

I was obliged to stand there, holding the leash of this creature for their welcoming publicity shots, implying that this was some kind of image the decided to have of me. ~ Barbara Steele