Alice Miller Quotes

Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation.

Alice Miller

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: psychologist
  • Nationality: swiss
  • Birth: January 12, 1923 - April 14, 2010

Topics

ChildhoodChildLongSituationWay

Everybody goes through challenges. There's stuff that happens personally that's challenging, stuff in work that's difficult, disappointments that happen.

Melanie Lynskey

WorkChallengesDifficultHappen

Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state.

Matthew Simpson

EducationWashingtonServingEqual

If you aren't going to do something all the way, don't do it.

Maureen McCormick

YouWaySomethingGoing

If I feel like I've done a great job during an interview with the president of the United States live in the Oval Office, it doesn't give me a tenth of the good feeling of going to the school play and making eye contact with my kids as they're onstage delivering their lines. Nothing compares with that moment of connection.

Matt Lauer

GoodLiveGreatMomentJobSchool

But on the other hand, in the midst of the chaos, you find normal people. You find people who are willing to risk their lives to tell you what they saw, even though they have no dog in the fight.

John Pomfret

DogFightPeopleChaosYouFind

I want to cause havoc. I want to cause mayhem - and I mean the worst mayhem you can see.

Tony Bellew

YouWantWorstMeanSeeCause

Who has sent you against me? Who has told you to do this thing?

Roberto Calvi

MeYouAgainstWhoThingSent

When you're an actor or any kind of artist, you use your life as something to draw from in every experience.

Josh Peck

LifeExperienceYouArtistKindUse

If you're going to be mad, at least let the people know what you're mad about.

Chuck Berry

PeopleYouMadKnowGoingLeast

I live a bi-coastal and sometimes tri-coastal life.

Bryan Batt

LifeLiveSometimes

You get held to a high standard, almost an unmaintainable standard, in the public eye that you don't even come close to touching.

Tiki Barber

EyeYouHighGetComeAlmost

I think there are more films being made, but there are probably less outlets for them and distributors.

Richard Linklater

ThinkMoreBeingMadeI ThinkLess

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