Jan 29, 2009 00:16
hey all
so these were some interesting quotes i found in my pysch book. some of them are very interesting. enjoy. -E
Chapter 1:
Marriage has become more joyful, more loving, and more satisfying for many couples than ever before
in history. at the same time it has become optional & more brittle. - stephani coontz
1. You are everything you choose to be. - shad Helmstedder, self talk guru
2. The 3 biggest mistakes in life are failing to make wise choices, failing to recognize bad
choices, and failing to correct bad choices (if possible) once they have been made. - marty E
Zusman, sociologist.
3. The bottom line is that I am responsible for my own well-being., my own happiness. The choices
and decisions I make regarding my life directly influence the quality of my days. - Kathleen andrus,
actress
4. The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but i have promises to keep, and miles to go before i sleep,
and miles to go before i sleep. robert frost
5. The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross & which to burn. - david russell,
guitarist.
6. Be willing to make decisions. Dont fall victim to what i call the "ready: aim aim aim syndrom".
you must be willing to fire. - T Boone Pickens, millionaire oilman.
7. No written law has eer been more binding than unwritten custom. - carrie chapman catt, peace
activist.
8. Our lives are shaped by the choices and actions of others around us. -Lorne Tepperman & Susannah
wilson, sociologists.
9. all the world's a stage, and all the men & women merely players. they hae their exists &
entrances; each man in his time plays many parts.
-william shakespeare.
10. It's not what we dont know that hurts, its what we know that ain't so. - will rogers, humorist.
11. Some people change when they see the light, others when they feel the heat. - caroline schoeder
12. In the future, marriages & families will more often be defined in terms of closeness. -shirley
zimmerman, family life specialist.
13. Fear not that life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never hae a beginning. -
J.H Newman, Cardinal & philospher
14. Children are the living messages we send to a time we will never see. -John w. whitehead,
attorney/author.
15. Polygny, whereby a man can have multiple wives, is the marriage form found in more places & at
more times than any other. -stephanie coontz, family historian
16. If you charge 1, where do you stop? you start prosecuting 10,000 ppl & have 20,000 kids go into
the welfare system. - Mark shurtleff, Utah Attorney General
17. It's complicated- Pax Starr, polyamorist.
18. other things may change, but we all start & end with the fmaily. -anthony Brandt, historian.
19. call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it,
whoever you are, you need 1. - jane howard, anthropologist.
20. What we've shown is a process of suffusion--family becomes more friend-like and friends become
more family like. -Ray Pahl, sociologist.
21. Families are like fudge--mostly sweet, with a few nuts. -barbara johnson
22. Friendships come & go, but families are forever. - kenny rogers, singer
23. Other things may chance us, but we start & end with family. -anthony brandt, author.
24. make all your relationships win-win. - jack turner, psychologist
25. It's never too late to become what you might have been. - george elliot, victorian novelist.
26. The family is 1 of nature's masterpieces. -George santayana, philospher.
27. When 1 ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he
cares no more for the game, the viture passes out of him. - george horton, sociologist.
28. though i have worked many years to make a marriage more equal, i never expected to take
advantage of marriage myself. - gloria steinem, feminist (married at age 66)
29. if we define things as real, they are real in their consquences.- W.I Thomas, sociologist.
30. The nuclear family, rahter than the individual is the emotional unit. -murray bowan, theorist.
31. Our minds have been built by selfish genes, but they have been built to be social, trustworthy,
and cooperative. - matt ridley, "the origins of virtue".
32. If you have to ask the price, you can't afford it. - J.P Morgan, billionaire.
33. After all, there is but one race- humanity. - george moore, irish novelist.
34. My latest survey shows that ppl dont believe in surveys. -Laurence J. Peter, canadian humorist
35. What's in a name? that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. - william
shakespeare
36. When i was younger i could remember anything, whether it happened or not. - mark twain, author
Chapter 2:
37. Relations between women & men have changed more in the past 30 years, than they have in the past
300 years. - stephanie coontz
38. I dont think boys in general watch the emotional world of relationships as closely as girls do.
girls track that world all day long, like watching the weather. - carol gilligan, gender researcher.
39. There is no unisex brain.It follows that these 2 brain models can produce quite different
behaviors. -louann brizendine, the female brain.
40. Few women admit their age. Few men act it. - bumper sticker
41. women always worry abou the things men forget. men always worry abou the things women remember.
- unknown.
42. sex differences are real, biologically programmed, and important to how children are raised,
disciplined and educated. - leonard sax, Why gender matters.
43. I hope the 21st century sees an end to the nature-nurture argument...we need to move forward &
investigate how nature & culture interact. - helen fisher, anthropologist.
44. You are the bow from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. - kahlil gibran, poet
45. one's friends are the part of the human race with which one can be human. - santayana
46. To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge. - Chuang Tzu, 300 B.C.
47. Barbara walters asked afghani women, " why do you now seem happy with the old custom of walk 5
paces behind your husband?". Land mines was the answer.
48. Maasai men may have several wives who cooperate to take care of them & their children. - shaabon
Mgonza, Guide, Arusha, Tanzania, East Africa.
49. The woman most in need of liberation is the woman in eery man and the man in every woman. -
william sloan coffin, clergyman & political activist.
50. I make the most of all that comes & the least of all tha goes. - sara teasdale, poet.
51. as you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best
for you--the 1st time around. -oprah winfrey
52. We need a new definition of masculinity in this new century: a definition that is more about the
character of men's hears and the depths of their souls than about the size of their biceps, wallets
or penises. - michael S. Kimmel, Manhood in america.
53. Therapists report that the most common complaint of women in distressed marriages is that their
husbands are too withdrawn & dont shape openly enough. - howard markman, marriage therapist.
54. If there were a ritual dance of the androgyne, T'ai Chi as performed by this master could be
that dance. It is neither a masculine nor a feminine dance. It has the strength & grace of both. -
june singer.
55. no longer is the female destined soley for the home & the rearing of the family nor the male for
the marketplace & the world of ideas. - william J. Brennan, Supreme Court justice
Chapter 3:
56. say you love me every waking moment, turn my head with talk of summertime. - christy to her
young lover, Phantom of the Opera.
57. for loe is such a myster, i cannot find it out. For when i think I'm best resolved, I than am
most in doubt. - John O' Brien, happy marriage.
58. Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we we
out to feel. -John churton, English literary critic (1848-1908)
59. The game of loe cannot be played with the cards on the table. - Unknown
60. love requires respect & friendship as well as passion. because there comes a time when you have
to get out of bed. - erica jong, novelist
61. but there's nothing half so sweet in life, as loe's young dream. - sir Thomas More, Renaissance
English author & Catholic martyr.
62. The magic of 1st love is our ignorance that it can ever end. - benjamin disraeli, british
politician.
63. unless we practice loving feelings toward everyone we meet, day in, day out, we're missing out
on the most joyous part of life. If we can actually open our hearts, there's no difficulty in being
happy. - Ayya Khema, be an island.
64. Men as a rule loe with their eyes, but women with their ears. - Oscar wilde.
65. love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. - robert frost.
66. Love usually begins by deceiving oneself, and usually ends by deceiving the other person.
-unknown.
67. loe is a state of mind that begins when you think life cant be any better, and ends when you
think life cant be any worse. - anonymou.
68. I'm not living with you. we occupy the same cage. - Maggie to her husband brick in Tennessee
williams Cat on a hot tin roof.
69. to those of us who knew the pain of valentines that never came. - Janis Ian, singer
70. My love for you has driven me insane. - Rumi, persian mystic & poet.
71. living with someone you loe can be lonelier--than living entirely alone!--if the 1 that y'love
doesnt love you back. -Maggie to her husband....
72. When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it is a pretty certain sign that she
has his. - George D. Prentice, US newspaperman, editor, poet (1802-1870).
73. Next to the atom bomb, the greatest explosion is set off by an old flame. - Evan Esar, humorist.
74. The way to hold a husband is to keep him a little jealous; the way to lose him is to keep him a
little more jealous. - H.L. Mencken.
75. Where there is no jealously, there is no love. - Elizabeth Taylor, actress
76. It is better to loe 2 too many than 1 too few. - Sir JOhn Harrington.