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“I want to be both pathetic and admirable, I want to be at the same time a child and an adult. Thereby I gamble, I take a risk: for it is always possible that the other will simply ask no question whatever about these unaccustomed glasses; that the other will see, in the fact, no sign.”

Want Children Facts Asks Risk Adults Glasses Pathetic Gamble Admirable

Book:A lover's discourse: fragments

Source: A lover's discourse: fragments

“I always listen, I ask children, I even ask adults in tennis, "What are your children playing?" And most of the time it's not tennis. It's pathetic.”

Children Asks Adults Our Children Your Children Tennis Pathetic Children Playing

Author:Billie Jean King

“Children can ask what adults don't dare to because we don't want to admit we're scared and we don't really want to hear the answers.”

Want Children Asks Answers Adults Scared Dare

Author:Martha Grimes

“Well, when people ask where I'm from, I usually say the Midwest, because that covers both homes, in a way. Obviously I was born in Omaha, but when people say, "Where do you come from," we'll say Milwaukee. I mean Jennifer was certainly born in Milwaukee, and that's where I spent a big chunk of my adult life, so we usually say we came here from Milwaukee. That's usually how it's referenced is we're from Milwaukee, yeah.”

People Way Wells Mean Home Bigs Asks Born Adults Yeah Chunks Jennifer Midwest Omaha Milwaukee

Author:Peter Buffett

“I didn't ask to become a role model, but it was thrust upon all of us, regardless of whether you acknowledge it. You have to come to a decision as an adult and say, "I've got to live my life." There's nothing wrong with thinking ahead and being aware of how it might affect somebody - everything from a post to where you have dinner to who you're with. But these aren't things you can let consume your life.”

Thinking Might Asks Decision Roles Models Adults Dinner Posts Acknowledge Role Models Living My Life Thrust Thinking Ahead

Author:Nick Jonas

“I accepted the forgiveness of God. I got off track as an adult and because I believe in God's grace, I believe that gave me strength then to get that little part of my life realigned, to not play games about it, to confess it, to ask for forgiveness from God and ask others to forgive me as well and then move on.”

Believe Wells Littles Play Moving Asks Games I Believe Grace Adults Forgiving Track I Believe In Accepted Believe In God God's Grace Forgive Me I Believe In God Asking For Forgiveness

Author:Max Lucado

“People ask me if there are going to be stories of Harry Potter as an adult. Frankly, if I wanted to, I could keep writing stories until Harry is a senior citizen, but I don't know how many people would actually want to read about a 65 year old Harry still at Hogwarts playing bingo with Ron and Hermione.”

“I was happy but happy is an adult word. You don't have to ask a child about happy, you see it. They are or they are not. Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not. Talking about it is the same as trying to catch the wind. Much easier to let it blow all over you.”

Trying Children Asks Talking Wind Easier Adults Blow Over You Not Talking

Book:The Passion

Source: The Passion

“All my adult life I've felt drawn to ask long-married couples how they were able to stay together. All of them said the same thing: "We worked hard at it.”

Long Said Hard Able Together Asks Felt Couple Married Adults Married Couples

Author:Randy Pausch

“Philosophers are often like little children, who first scribble random lines on a piece of paper with their pencils, and now ask an adult 'What is that?”

Firsts Children Littles Asks Lines Pieces Paper Adults Philosopher Pencils Scribbles

Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein

“I think anorexia is a metaphor. It is a young woman's statement that she will become what the culture asks of its women, which is that they be thin and nonthreatening. Anorexia signifies that a young woman is so delicate that, like the women of China with their tiny broken feet, she needs a man to shelter and protect her from a world she cannot handle. Anorexic women signal with their bodies "I will take up only a small amount of space. I won't get in the way." They signal "I won't be intimidating or threatening." (Who is afraid of a seventy-pound adult?)”

“What is a child?" he asks her. The diamond gaze does not flinch. "Creatures that are sold on the street by their parents, to get the coin to make more children." She paused. "Adults sell themselves.”

Children Doe Asks Parent Streets Creatures Adults Sells Diamond Coins

Book:Feast of Souls: Book One of the Magister Trilogy

Source: Feast of Souls: Book One of the Magister Trilogy

“His mind reeled. Now, empowered to ask questions of utmost rudeness-and promised answers-he could, conceivably (though it was almost unimaginable), ask someone, some adult, his father perhaps: "Do you lie?" But he would have no way of knowing if the answer he received was true.”

Ifs Way Mind Lying Asks Father Answers Knowing Adults Empowered Unimaginable Rudeness

Book:The Giver Movie Tie-In Edition

Source: The Giver Movie Tie-In Edition

“We lead the world in only 3 categories: number of incarcerated citizens per capita, number of adults who believe angels are real, and defense spending, where we spend more than the next 26 countries combined, 25 of whom are allies. Now none of this is the fault of 20 year old college student, but you nonetheless are without a doubt a member of the worst period generation period ever period, so when you ask what makes us the greatest country in the world I don't know what the f...k you're talking about.”

“I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The reason, I think, is that a normal adult never stops to think about problems of space and time. These are things which he has thought about as a child. Bu t my intellectual development was retarded,as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up.”