Ellen Key Quotes

When the crying child is immediately isolated, and it is explained to him at the same time that whoever annoys others must not be with them, if this isolation is the absolute result and cannot be avoided, in the child's mind a basis is laid for the experience that one must be alone when one makes oneself unpleasant or disagreeable.

Ellen Key

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: swedish
  • Birth: December 11, 1849 - April 25, 1926

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I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in my novels people both act and think. I got a kick out of that.

Jim Harrison

PeopleThinkSaidWhyOutCritic

I'm not for or against video - or any medium or style, for that matter.

Jerry Saltz

StyleMatterAgainstVideoMedium

My dad gave me one of his kidneys.

Amy Purdy

MeHisGaveDad

I just want to contribute to my team and earn the trust and do everything they need from me.

Stefon Diggs

TrustMeTeamWantNeedEverything

Picabia is a very old painter who some people try to connect me to, but I refuse such comparisons very well.

Sigmar Polke

PeopleMeTrySome PeopleOldWell

When I was as little as four years old, my mom would give me a pen and paper and tell me to write a story to keep me busy.

Tracie Peterson

MeMomStoryBusyPenWrite

Those who deny the existence of a supreme being have been turned into second-class citizens by a government that continuously sends messages that 'real Americans' believe in God.

Michael Newdow

GodGovernmentBelieveExistenceWho

With power comes the abuse of power. And where there are bosses, there are crazy bosses. It's nothing new.

Judd Rose

PowerCrazyAbuse Of PowerNewAbuse

I expect the audience to come up to my level. I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable to an assumed sub-standard mass.

Don Ellis

MusicI AmAudienceUpExpectLevel

What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That's what their substance is.

Jonathan Miller

SurviveInterestingLiteratureOut

Our family life was certainly not intellectual.

Douglass North

LifeFamilyIntellectualFamily Life

Currently under FCC policy, indecency determinations hinge on two factors. First, material must describe or depict sexual or excretory organs or activities. Second, the material must be patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards for the broadcast medium.

Doug Ose

CommunityFirstTwoPolicyStandards

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