quotes about Scolding

“New York! I've always wanted to see it and now I've see it. It's true what they say-- it's the most wonderful city in the world.”

“I wanted to do an album that was very simple and very minimal in the context of instrumentation and stuff. I wanted to use as few means as possible to create a very powerful and interesting sound that would breathe.”

“There are none among us who have not been, even for a moment, cruel to those whom we love most, as if unable, in that moment, to shoulder any longer the magnificent weight and burden, the responsibility, of that love.”

Source : Rick Bass (1998). “The Sky, the Stars, the Wilderness”, p.118, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“Health care for everybody, by making it illegal not to have health care. It's so simple, why didn't we think of this before?”

“Feminism - the word - can give us a handle, a rallying point, a common ground, and help us build a bridge. Why not claim the gift of the word as a place to begin?”

“You would have to say of John Howard's government that he has tended to go after things with a fair degree of determination, and I would have thought.. I don't see any reason why that should suddenly disappear now that he has control of both houses.”

“The past can be a terrible weight bound to you by an unbreakable chain. You can drag it with you, forever looking over your shoulder at what holds you back. Or you can let it go and move forward. It’s your choice.”

“I just get excited doing shows. Off stage I am actually very feeble and must be spoon-fed because my hands are too brittle.”

“I started with California, and I did not like it. I flew over to Seattle, and I did not like it much. I felt like Iowa is the place - I like the people and the environment.”

“No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.”

Source : Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon