Don't you know that love isn't just going to bed? Love isn't an act, it's a whole life. It's staying with her now because she needs you; it's knowing you and she will still care about each other when sex and daydreams, fights and futures...
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Brian Moore
Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl that she used...
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Robert A. Heinlein
The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
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H.l. Mencken
Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything. Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know it.
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Oscar Wilde
THE FOUR HEAVENLY FOUNTAINSLaugh, I tell you And you will turn back The hands of time. Smile, I tell you And you will reflect The face of the divine. Sing, I tell you And all the angels will sing with you! Cry, I tell you...
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Suzy Kassem
More Quotes By Christopher Lasch
Much of what is euphemistically known as the middle class, merely because it dresses up to go to work, is now reduced to proletarian conditions of existence. Many white-collar jobs require no more skill and pay even less than blue-collar jobs, conferring little status or...
Man’s collective mastery of nature– even if we could ignore the mounting evidence that this too is largely an illusion– can hardly be expected to confer a sense of confidence and well- being when it coexists with centralizing forces that have deprived individuals of any...
Parents accept their obsolescence with the best grace they can muster.. . they do all they can to make it easy for the younger generation to surpass the older while secretly dreading the rejection that follows.
I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament.
When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.
