You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.
Alice Munro
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JINCY WILLETT Time cannot put anything in your hands until you let go off the time.
VISHWANATH S J I love contemporary North American fiction and short fiction. My favorite writer is Jonathan Franzen...
EMILY PERKINS Some things are so real you can feel them to your core. It doesn't matter where you go, they go with...
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MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Eventually when numbers are very high the plant looks near death. Then you have a real disaster on y...
GREG TYLKA Stay true to your commitment & nurture passion to let your action tell your real potential.(
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA If you cannot hold me in your arms, then hold my memory in high regard.
And if I cannot be in y...
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VERONICA ROTH You cannot stay at the same level as when you first practiced your truth, life won't let you.
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OSCAR WILDE Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that ...
OSCAR WILDE It is an issue of attitude change. You cannot preserve cattle and let your children die.
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HANNAH WARE If you honor your parents, your children will honor you.
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CAROL WINDLEY You use your real voice with those you love, and you cannot be phony with those who know you well.
FREDERICK BUECHNER You cannot fail without your consent. You cannot succeed without your participation.
DR ROB THOMAS Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies.
ORSON SCOTT CARD You must completely dedicate yourselves to it. To do less will be to let down your country, your sta...
HOMER HICKAM Don't you remember, sweet Alice, Ben Bolt?
Sweet Alice, whose hair was so brown;
Who wept with...
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JOEL OSTEEN In real football, I wouldn't want Terrell Owens anywhere near my team. But you're nuts if yo...
RANDY CROSS Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless yo...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Among contemporaries, I hugely admire Alice Munro, our Chekhov, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and John U...
CYNTHIA OZICK Never let your secrets to anyone,
when you can not keep them to yourself,
You can not expect someone...
KEERTHI RADHAKRISHNA JALIGAM You have the right to be wrong. Let your ideas fail, let your skills prove their inadequacy, and let...
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RICK RIORDAN Never expect yourself to understand your parents, and never expect your parents to understand you. Y...
FLORANTE T. CORDOVIZ Our biggest fear is to go anywhere near who you are.
JOHNNY DEPP If you go anywhere, even paradise, you will miss your home.
MALALA YOUSAFZAI Glibness will get your anywhere.
PHILIP JOHNSON If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL You and your siblings are the most precious part of my life. And of all my children, you have the mo...
ZACK LOVE It's difficult because you really don't have family, your parents, your siblings.
GRISELDA BETANCOURT So while you might think it is coming from cousin Alice, most likely cousin Alice is not going to se...
ALAIN SERGILE If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensi...
POPE PAUL VI You can find your freedom in yourself, not anywhere else.
CHANDAN KUMAR DE Do not harm your neighbour, who live trustfully near you.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA How you lose or keep your hair depends on how wisely you choose your parents.
EDWARD R. NIDA But the real secret to lifelong good health is actually the opposite: Let your body take care of you...
DEEPAK CHOPRA You can't be going anywhere unless you get rid of your chair.
JECON B. NADELA Anywhere you can lead your life, you can lead a good one.
MARCUS AURELIUS If you go too near your relatives, they will not respect you.
VIKRANT PARSAI You cannot choose your face but you can choose your dress.
AMIT KALANTRI Your job cannot sustain you, only your calling can
SUNDAY ADELAJA You cannot marry your past without divorcing your future.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO You cannot see the mountain near
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MIHAIL SEBASTIAN ...he had a way of taking your hand which made it clear he'd have to be the one to let go."
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ROBERT BRINGHURST Ginsburg wasn't anywhere near the mainstream.
ED WHELAN If you're anywhere near the flood plain you ought to think about it.
BOB HUNTER One quote isn't anywhere near enough to describe how much I love you.
MILAN STOJILOVIC I'm sure I've been influenced by every fine writer I've ever read, from Dickens and Aust...
AMY BLOOM Let your running lead you to your diet.
BILL RODGERS Whenever you experience pain anywhere in your body, the chi flow in your energy system has been disr...
CATHERINE CARRIGAN You cannot hold your head high with your hand out.
YIDDISH PROVERB Your parents leave you too soon and your kids and spouse come along late, but your siblings know you...
JEFFREY KLUGER Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a ‘real’ exper...
MAXWELL MALTZ No, you cannot beat your wife. No, you cannot hit your sister. No you cannot use abusive language to...
HEENA RATHORE P. Once you raise your own child and you will comprehend the hardship of your parents.
– Chinese prov...
CHINESE PROVERB First your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life
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BHAWANA JAIN I'm actually not an exhibitionist at all. When you get onstage and you get under the lights play...
TIM MCGRAW Knowing what your parents have gives you hints of things, but your genome is a totally unique combin...
CRAIG VENTER Either you kill your conscience, or you let your conscience kill you.
HAIFA SANAD You have your real life and then you have your work.
RACHEL WEISZ It was awful to be this person, so jammed up with bad experiences you couldn’t let anyone see your...
TARRYN FISHER You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
JIM ROHN You cannot change your destination overnight. You can change your direction.---Jim Rohn
JIM ROHN When your mind becomes your only weapon you realize that you cannot lose.
SOMA NAZHAD RASHEED KURDI You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight
JIM ROHN Parents have to understand: if your kid isn't you, don't blame the kid.
CHAZ BONO Drive your business, let not your business drive you.
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ALEXANDRA BRACKEN You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind.
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ALICE MEYNELL Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can writ...
ALICE WALKER The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where doe...
ALICE JAMES It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the childr...
ALICE WALKER One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any ...
ALICE JAMES The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself
conspicuous in the act of laughter.
ALICE MEYNELL Confidence in a bloke would be arrogance in a woman. For years, I didn't give interviews because...
ALICE LOWE We have met numerous times as a neighborhood. We are united in our opposition.
ALICE MOORE These men, whether laicized, defrocked, or restricted from ministry, continue to pose a threat to al...
ALICE MOORE I thought if someone is willing to donate them, we're willing to take them. It never hurts to ask.
ALICE MOORE We buy them (books) as our budget allows. But eighth grade has four trade books (individual-title bo...
ALICE MOORE Having separate proceedings will allow the NRC to fully assess the specific characteristics of each ...
ALICE MOORE We were very concerned about a monopoly and really focused on opportunities to bring new retailers t...
ALICE MOORE Our goal here is to provide low prices on high-quality products and excellent services to consumers ...
ALICE MOORE The goal here is to provide opportunities for new retailers to enter our marketplace.
ALICE MOORE The capacity of the human organism to bear pain is, for our own protection, limited. All attempts to...
ALICE MILLER The truth about childhood, as many of us have had to endure it, is inconceivable, scandalous, painfu...
ALICE MILLER ,,,It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has ...
ALICE MILLER