#them

When I hear traditional family values raised, I hear that effort once again to re-establish the man as head and master of his family. Who had the, not only the right, but the obligation to discipline his wife and children to keep them in line? ↗

— Patricia Ireland

#children #discipline #effort #family #family values

Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them. ↗

— Vincent McNabb

#control #extraordinary #fears #gives #god

There's one thing better than having a great actor, and that's having a great actor who's never done this kind of role before and is hungry to do it. They're testing themselves every day. They want to get out of their trailer and get to work. ↗

— Sam Mendes

#before #better #day #done #every

I'm not embarrassed about the novels I wrote when I was younger, but I couldn't write them today because of my religion. ↗

— Louise Mensch

#because #embarrassed #i #novels #religion

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#find #fit #image #love #love is

Writers don't have to keep themselves honest. They have to keep themselves accurate. ↗

— John Metcalf

#honest #keep #themselves #writers

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#actions #case #cause #either #evil

We produce destructive people by the way we are treating them in childhood. ↗

— Alice Miller

#destructive #people #produce #them #treating

And if, happy in the lot of no created thing, he withdraws into the center of his own unity, his spirit, made one with God, in the solitary darkness of God, who is set above all things, shall surpass them all. ↗

— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

#all things #center #created #darkness #god

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. ↗

— Ashley Montagu

#enjoy #moments #seize #surprise #take