Ayelet Waldman Quotes

If only shame were a reliable engine for behavior modification. All it does is make me feel bad, which inspires me to bust open a bag of cheese popcorn, which then makes me feel crappy about my weight.

Ayelet Waldman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: israeli
  • Birth: December 11, 1964

Topics

MeBehaviorFeelBagBadCheese

When I look back, I didn't take care of myself at all.

Joe Cocker

MyselfCareTake CareLookBack

I'm the only person in the world that, when he holds down two jobs, gets criticized for it; everyone else gets a pat on the back and say, 'What an entrepreneuring, hardworking person,' but apparently that doesn't apply to me.

Jesse Ventura

MeWorldBackDownPersonSay

Make sure you are safe, and never ever put yourself in a compromising situation, but once that is checked off the list, I think it's really important for us to remember that someone needs us, and that your act of giving/helping/doing can truly become an act of grace once you get out of your head.

Meghan Markle

YourselfGraceThinkSomeoneYou

America cannot function if we are a society fueled by riots.

Meghan McCain

SocietyAmericaCannotFunction

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Simone Weil

PowerOverGetPossess

Certain things happened in the early church. Women who had never had any freedom suddenly have the ability to stand up and speak and be treated as equals within the life of the church.

Tony Campolo

LifeWomenFreedomStand UpSpeak

The realms of life are many. For each one, special sciences develop. But life itself is a unity, and the more deeply the sciences try to penetrate into their separate realms, the more they withdraw themselves from the vision of the world as a living whole.

Rudolf Steiner

LifeVisionUnityWorldLivingTry

For me, the path of failure exceeded by far the joys of success. My plight was hopeless.

Dominick Dunne

SuccessFailurePathMeHopeless

By the time I was in the fourth grade, I sounded exactly like my father on the phone.

Dick Cavett

FatherTimePhoneLikeGradeFourth

For the longest time, the way that I had understood 4chan was this idea that the lack of an archive made the content really ephemeral, and it took me a while, but I finally realized that that's just totally wrong.

Christopher Poole

TimeMeWrongWayContentJust

When I was growing up, the brands that were most powerful were people brands, like Michael Jackson or Madonna. They stood for something that, perhaps, wasn't wholly who they were, which then became an image that they sold. That's still a brand to me.

Bozoma Saint John

PeopleMeGrowing UpBrandPowerful

Resilience is woven deeply into the fabric of Oklahoma. Throw us an obstacle, and we grow stronger.

Brad Henry

ResilienceGrowStrongerObstacleUs

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