Ayelet Waldman Quotes

So many women today have become so focused on their children, they've developed these romantic entanglements with their children's lives, and the husbands are secondary. They're left out. And the romantic focus is on the children.

Ayelet Waldman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WomenTodayChildrenRomanticFocus

The function of combat is not merely to perpetrate violence, but to perpetrate violence on command, instantaneously and reflexively. The function of the service academies is to prepare men for leadership positions where they may someday exercise that command.

Jim Webb

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I love the smell of clean laundry. Working in the garden and getting my hands dirty. Doing the dishes. These are the things that make me feel normal.

Joanna Gaines

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Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

LoveRelationshipMenYoungPromise

I love coffee.

John Ross Bowie

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America, we need to pray and lead from our spirits and not our emotions - and definitely not with our weapons.

Alveda King

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Our hope in life beyond death is a hope made possible, not by some general sentimental belief in life after death, but by our participation in the life of Christ.

Stanley Hauerwas

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Boxing should focus on pitting champion versus champion - those are the fights that everyone wants to see. The sports also needs to work on developing new heroes and personalities. I'd like to see more vignettes on fighters, focusing on their lives, goals and stories. Boxers need to be larger than life.

Sugar Ray Leonard

LifeWorkGoalsSportsFocusNew

It's very easy to do a fundraiser and spend a lot of money on food and venue and not raise any money. You really do need to twist people's arms into giving, even if they support you.

Michael Seibel

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I'm an old, white-haired guy. If I'm not recognized, I'm treated pretty much like every other elderly. But if people recognize me, it's a whole different thing.

Dick Van Dyke

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I'm apolitical. Where all that Conservative business came along from, I don't know.

Cilla Black

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I'm a very friendly, smiley person.

Aubrie Sellers

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Our vision is to, one day, connect all of Europe with our Hyperloop One system, networking the entire continent.

Shervin Pishevar

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