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Christopher Lasch Quotes

The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.

Christopher Lasch

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: american
Birth: June 1, 1932 - February 14, 1994

Topics

Family Time People Open Out Modern

Today they have proven once again that the mainstream media can't print enough bad news about our troops.

Joe Scarborough

Today Enough Media Bad News Print

If God wanted us to bend over he'd put diamonds on the floor.

Joan Rivers

Funny God Diamonds Bend Over Floor

I am weary of happiness, both as a word and as a concept.

Meghan Daum

Happiness I Am Weary Word Concept

You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.

Max Beerbohm

Men Woman Sympathy Inspire You Find

For the record, I believe that women and their doctors should have access to oral contraception when desired by the patient and medically appropriate.

Ami Bera

Women Believe I Believe Patient

If I go into a relationship with an artist, which at most is going to last five years, we have a 100-page contract covering every eventuality. Whereas with marriage you go into it with no contract, with laws that date back hundreds of years, and I don't think that's right.

Simon Cowell

Marriage Relationship Think You Back

You never want to have to give your child bad news of any kind.

Jonathan Dee

Child You Bad News Want Kind

Except for the occasional heart attack, I never felt better.

Dick Cheney

Heart Better Never Attack Except

Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.

Douglas MacArthur

History Peace War Honor Contribution

When I started doing music full time, I figured out my job wasn't something I needed to be completely sober for.

Brantley Gilbert

Music Time Job Doing Sober Out

Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.

Augustus Hare

Saying Things Being Ambitious Grand

Adults often assume that most learning is the result of teaching and that exploratory, spontaneous learning is unusual. But actually, spontaneous learning is more fundamental.

Alison Gopnik

Learning Result More Spontaneous