#neither

The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat. ↗

— John le Carre

#become #cheat #childhood #detachment #ever

Women are only children of a larger growth. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humours and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters. ↗

— Philip Stanhope

#child #children #consults #does #flatters

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#bathe #be yourself #goose #itself #make

America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system. ↗

— Walter Cronkite

#care #caring #health #health care #health care system

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#forgive #naive #neither #nor #stupid

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#children #enjoy #future #neither #nor

Great masters neither want nor need your worship. Your greatest gift to them and yourself is to emulate their divinity by claiming it as your own. ↗

— Alan Cohen

#divinity #emulate #gift #great #greatest

As neither of these two great research scientists was able to find the solution to the mystery, it is small wonder that none of their contemporaries were able to do so either. ↗

— Robert Barany

#contemporaries #either #find #great #mystery

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them. ↗

— Georges Bataille

#despair #dreams #give #how #intellectual

I'm neither embarrassed of who I am, where I come from, what I've experienced, I'm not ashamed of it. ↗

— Shania Twain

#ashamed #come #embarrassed #experienced #i