Lori Gottlieb quotes

“The three words women most want to hear from a man are, "You lost weight"”
-- Lori Gottlieb

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“Could it be that by protecting our kids from unhappiness as children, we’re depriving them of happiness as adults?”
-- Lori Gottlieb

Source : "How to Land Your Kid in Therapy" by Lori Gottlieb, www.theatlantic.com. July 2011.

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“Marriage isn't a passion-fest; it's more like a partnership formed to run a very small, mundane, and often boring nonprofit business. And I mean this in a good way.”
-- Lori Gottlieb

Source : "Marry Him!" by Lori Gottlieb, www.theatlantic.com. March 2008.

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“By trying so hard to provide the perfectly happy childhood, we're just making it harder for our kids to actually grow up,”
-- Lori Gottlieb

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“Dating is about grand romantic gestures that mean little over the long term. Marriage is about small acts of kindness that bond you over a lifetime.”
-- Lori Gottlieb

Source : Lori Gottlieb (2010). “Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough”, p.166, Penguin

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“Is it a particularly British trait to so utterly adore truly appalling men, from Tony Hancock through to Steptoe and Alf Garnett, Captain Mainwaring, Rigsby, Del Boy, Victor Meldrew and on to David Brent from The Office. The most deeply adored characters are all simply vile.”

“I cannot understand how any man or woman can believe in the Lord's coming and not be a missionary, or at least committed to the work of missions with every power of his being.”

Source : A. B. Simpson (1987). “Missionary Messages: For a Church that Needs to Hear”, p.23, Moody Publishers

“God wants us to speak to men so that they will feel it, so that they will never forget it. God means every Christian to be effective, to make a difference in the actual records and results of Christian work. God put each of us here to be a power. There is not one of us but is an essential wheel of the machinery and can accomplish all that God calls us to.”

“We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?”

“No one man is superior to the game.”

“If someone offers you a three picture deal at 20 you'd take it. I would have killed for it.”

Source : Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

“If we would have had the 262 at our disposal - even with all the delays - if we could have had in '44, ah, let's say three hundred operational, that day we could have stopped the American daytime bombing offensive, that's for sure.”

“It was like losing an important weight-bearing bone, and I knew I would spend the rest of my life trying to figure out how to walk the streets without it.”

Source : Adam Rapp (2006). “The Year of Endless Sorrows: A Novel”, p.390, Macmillan

“It's hard to lose weight when you're dining on the company's money.”

“As a gymnast, you always wear spandex. Being a teenager wearing spandex? It was tough accepting how my body looked, especially if there was any weight gain.”