“The whole youth-idolatry oh-god-not-another-birthday thing has to be the most sure-fire way to be unhappy about the way things are progressing in your life.”
2002-08-06, 2006-08-22, August 6, 2002 blog entry http://www.nat.org/2002/august/#6-August-2002,
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“The way you look at things is the most powerful force in shaping your life.”
Source: Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?
Letters to Guy Moyston, (August 25, 1924 and July 11, 1925).
“Progress' constant companion is nostalgia for the way things used to be.”
"Pandora's Box", This American Life, television season 1, installment 6, 26 April 2007.
This American Life
“If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.”
KTVI interview,
asked whether abortions should be allowed for rape victims.
Context: It seems to me, first of all, from what I understand from doctors, that's really rare. If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down. But let's assume that maybe that didn't work or something: I think there should be some punishment, but the punishment ought to be of the rapist, and not attacking the child.
“The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.”
Look magazine, 5 March 1957.
Source: "Edward VIII, afterwards Duke of Windsor" The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. Ed. Elizabeth Knowles. Oxford University Press, 2004. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press. Accessed on 21 November 2008 http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/ENTRY.html?subview=Main&entry=t115.e1010
“Is it birthday weather for you, dear soul?
Is it fine your way”
Birthday Poem for Thomas Hardy (1949)