I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
GEORGE H. MEAD Society is unity in diversity.
GEORGE HERBERT MEAD The beauty of a face is not a separate quality but a relation or proportion of qualities to each oth...
GEORGE HERBERT MEAD Our cautious ancestors, when yawning, blocked the way to the entrance of evil spirits by putting the...
GEORGE HERBERT MEAD To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living ...
GEORGE HERBERT MEAD The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does no...
GEORGE HERBERT MEAD To be interested in the public good we must be disinterested, that is, not interested in goods in wh...
GEORGE HERBERT MEAD The self has the characteristic that it is an object to itself, and that characteristic distinguishe...
GEORGE HERBERT MEAD Imagery is not past but present. It rests with what we call our mental processes to place these imag...
GEORGE HERBERT MEAD Man lives in a world of meaning.
GEORGE HERBERT MEAD A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
GEORGE HERBERT MEAD Social psychology is especially interested in the effect which the social group has in the determina...
GEORGE HERBERT MEAD In wartime we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal ...
GEORGE HERBERT MEAD No very sharp line can be drawn between social psychology and individual psychology.
GEORGE HERBERT MEAD Putting off an easy thing makes it hard, and putting off a hard one makes it impossible.
GEORGE H. LONMER It is rather hard to be accused of shiftlessness and idleness when the accuser closes the avenue of ...
GEORGE H. WHITE The common people of America display a quality of good common sense which is heartening to anyone wh...
GEORGE H. GALLUP Grant graciously what you dare not refuse
GEORGE H. GALLUP The greatest thing in all the world is loving. The second greatest in all the world is learning.
GEORGE H. MORRISON I could prove God statistically. Take the human body alone-the chances that all the functions of an ...
GEORGE H. GALLUP I could prove God statistically.
GEORGE H. GALLUP I'll moider da bum. Tony Galento I could prove God statistically.
GEORGE H. GALLUP What's all this fuss about fathers being present at the birth of their children? The way events are ...
GEORGE H. DAVIES Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pay...
GEORGE H. GALLUP We are a nation of communities... a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of...
GEORGE H. W. BUSH I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me ea...
GEORGE H. W. BUSH I'm not trying to get myself up a notch on the ladder by shoving somebody else down on the ladde...
GEORGE H. W. BUSH A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man's heart, if n...
GEORGE H. W. BUSH I think when you see an aircraft fire, these angry, black puffs of smoke, knowing that one of them c...
GEORGE H. W. BUSH Ageing's alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.
GEORGE H. W. BUSH Read my lips: no new taxes.
GEORGE H. W. BUSH The day will come - and it is not far off - when the legacy of Lincoln will finally be fulfilled at ...
GEORGE H. W. BUSH We are not the sum of our possessions.
GEORGE H. W. BUSH I'm going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you're not going ...
GEORGE H. W. BUSH We don't want an America that is closed to the world. What we want is a world that is open to Am...
GEORGE H. W. BUSH The glory of being a carrier pilot has certainly worn off.
GEORGE H. W. BUSH Lincoln said you cannot be President without spending some item on your knees. I have repeated that ...
GEORGE H. W. BUSH I stand for anti-bigotry, anti-Semitism, and anti-racism.
GEORGE H. W. BUSH No, I'm not anguished and tormented.
GEORGE H. W. BUSH Many schools include a service project as part of their curriculum, and many corporations have in-ho...
GEORGE H. W. BUSH For 18 years I have resisted talking about current events. I am not going to start now.
GEORGE H. W. BUSH I'll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our electi...
GEORGE H. W. BUSH I will keep America moving forward, always forward, for a better America, for an endless enduring dr...
GEORGE H. W. BUSH Old guys can still do fun things.
GEORGE H. W. BUSH Well, I think everybody is frustrated by the finances of the U.N. and the inability to solve problem...
GEORGE H. W. BUSH It's no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.
GEORGE H. W. BUSH I think the 24-hour news cycle has helped exaggerate the differences between the parties. You can al...
GEORGE H. W. BUSH America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have s...
GEORGE H. W. BUSH We can realise a lasting peace and transform the East-West relationship to one of enduring co-operat...
GEORGE H. W. BUSH But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Mar...
GEORGE H. W. BUSH Please don't ask me to do that which I've just said I'm not going to do, because you'...
GEORGE H. W. BUSH One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you'd see the Vietnam vetera...
GEORGE H. W. BUSH As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encounte...
GEORGE H. W. BUSH I'm a conservative, but I'm not a nut about it.
GEORGE H. W. BUSH I'm conservative, but I'm not a nut about it.
GEORGE H. W. BUSH You know I vowed when I became President not to talk about the loneliest toughest job in the world a...
GEORGE H. W. BUSH I like a colorful sock. I'm a sock man.
GEORGE H. W. BUSH I know my serve stinks, but I was a pretty good tennis player.
GEORGE H. W. BUSH I think I'd be a better president because I was in combat.
GEORGE H. W. BUSH It's a very good question, very direct, and I'm not going to answer it.
GEORGE H. W. BUSH You cannot be President of the United States if you don't have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to...
GEORGE H. W. BUSH Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
H. Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
H. Never deprive someone of hope; it may be all they have.
H. Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.
H. People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road...
H. I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to ...
MARGARET MEAD Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
MARGARET MEAD Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary.
MARGARET MEAD It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil a...
MARGARET MEAD One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home...
MARGARET MEAD Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. ...
MARGARET MEAD Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.
MARGARET MEAD We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare ...
MARGARET MEAD Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be wom...
MARGARET MEAD What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
MARGARET MEAD Women should be permitted to volunteer for non-combat service, they should not be accepted, voluntar...
MARGARET MEAD If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any g...
MARGARET MEAD Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.
MARGARET MEAD Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is t...
MARGARET MEAD I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.
MARGARET MEAD The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilizati...
MARGARET MEAD Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.
MARGARET MEAD I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
MARGARET MEAD Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression.
MARGARET MEAD Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's ...
MARGARET MEAD Throughout history females have picked providers. males have picked anything.
MARGARET MEAD Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.
MARGARET MEAD If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any ...
MARGARET MEAD We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have.
MARGARET MEAD If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamu...
MARGARET MEAD Where are you guys getting all of this?" I asked. "What does it matter if I - oh come on."
We'd...
RICHELLE MEAD Screw you," I told him in a low voice.
"Are you offering?”
"From what I've heard, there ...
RICHELLE MEAD My muscles informed me they did not want to go through any more exercise today. So I suggest that ma...
RICHELLE MEAD I had a standing arrangement with God: I'd agree to believe in him—barely—so long as he let me s...
RICHELLE MEAD Come on, Hathaway," he said, taking my arm. "You can be my partner. Let’s see what you’ve been d...
RICHELLE MEAD Oh, so that's why you're up here. For a pity party."

"This isn't a joke. I'm serious." I ...
RICHELLE MEAD I like him."

"Like or like?

"Oh, there's a difference?
RICHELLE MEAD The incident with Dawn hadn't been one of my finer moments. I honestly hadn't expected to break any ...
RICHELLE MEAD I didn't like having reasonable arguments thrown at me.
RICHELLE MEAD He watched as I slipped one of the shoes on. "You have a guardian angel."
"I don't believe in a...
RICHELLE MEAD I'm really not good with impulse control.
RICHELLE MEAD I fought against her, trying to mount some kind of defense, but it was like fighting Dimitri on crac...
RICHELLE MEAD I get in that kind of situation all the time, Comrade. It's not a big deal." Anger replaced my fear....
RICHELLE MEAD Taking a deep breathe, I made one of the hardest decisions of my life.
I walked away.
RICHELLE MEAD Well he didn't treat my mother very well. He did some horrible things."
"Like..." I hesitated. ...
RICHELLE MEAD I crossed my arms over my chest. "Are you lost, little girl? The elementary school's over on west ca...
RICHELLE MEAD When I saw you fall..."
"You thought, 'Wow, she's a loser.
RICHELLE MEAD The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember...
RICHELLE MEAD A ghostly smile flickered across his face. "If you weren't so psychotic, you'd be fun to hang around...
RICHELLE MEAD Hey Mason, wipe the drool off your face. If you're going to think about me naked, do it on your own ...
RICHELLE MEAD Lissa and I had been friends ever since kindergarten, when our teacher had paired us up together for...
RICHELLE MEAD You…you got rid of that dress fast," I pointed out between heavy breaths. "I thought you liked it....
RICHELLE MEAD Wow." I hadn't thought Dimitri could be any cooler, but I was wrong. "You beat up your dad. I mean, ...
RICHELLE MEAD Dimitri: "She might be wild and disrespectful, but if she has potential—"
Rose: "Wild and dis...
RICHELLE MEAD The only thing better than imagining Dimitri carrying me in his arms was imagining him shirtless whi...
RICHELLE MEAD The spell. Victor said you had to want me... to care about me... for it to work." When he didn't say...
RICHELLE MEAD He stepped back and threw his arms out.
"I'm always crazy around you Rose. Here, I'm going to w...
RICHELLE MEAD I nearly dropped the plate I held. "You've asked me out tons of times."

"Not really. I've...
RICHELLE MEAD He'd written me up a proposal of why dating him was a sound decision. It had included things like "I...
RICHELLE MEAD Hey, he's awesome. A little unstable, but awesome. We got along great." Adrian opened the door to th...
RICHELLE MEAD Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it i...
MARGARET MEAD Piece of Heaven?"

"No, that other place I'm going to go to for thinking what I'm thinkin...
RICHELLE MEAD I also never would have imagined I'd quote back a church lesson, but when the rest of the crowd stoo...
RICHELLE MEAD Do you think I'm pretty?
I think you're beautiful
Beautiful?
You are so beautiful, it...
RICHELLE MEAD Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.
RICHELLE MEAD Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
MARGARET MEAD And than suddenly he was there, charging down the hallway like death in a cowboy duster.
RICHELLE MEAD It's okay," I said soothingly. "You're just getting your stride back. Once you're up to full power, ...
RICHELLE MEAD You can't force love, I realized. It's there or it isn't. If it's not there, you've got to be able t...
RICHELLE MEAD I sprang toward him with the stake, hoping to catch him by surprise. But Dimitri was hard to catch b...
RICHELLE MEAD What's up?" I asked.

You tell me," he said. "You were the one about ready to start making...
RICHELLE MEAD Sometimes talking to you is like talking to myself: pretty damned annoying.
RICHELLE MEAD What’s going on?” he demanded.
“The usual, old man,” I replied cheerily. “Danger, ins...
RICHELLE MEAD Most fathers don't threaten to disembowel their daughter's boyfriends."

"That's not true...
RICHELLE MEAD You might not believe this, but there is no one like her at this school."

"Oh I b...
RICHELLE MEAD Our lips met hungrily, and his clever artistic hands wrapped around my hips. A sudden buzz from my r...
RICHELLE MEAD What's that?" he asked, when I stood beside him again.

"Halos," I said with a grin. "For ...
RICHELLE MEAD Whatever happened to the dragon?"

I mustered my primmest tone. "He has a name, you know."...
RICHELLE MEAD She says you're not awake until you're actually out of bed and standing up.
RICHELLE MEAD Adrian, I'm on a date. Why are you here? On my car?
RICHELLE MEAD Your... Your aura. It's... amazing. It's shining. I mean, it always shines, but today... Well I've n...
RICHELLE MEAD Then the best thing I can do is—"

He froze. The brown eyes that had been narrowed with...
RICHELLE MEAD Sometimes it's worth lingering on the journey for a while before getting to the destination.
RICHELLE MEAD If I let myself love you, I won't throw myself in front of her. I'll throw myself in front of you.
RICHELLE MEAD Stop fighting me!" he said, trying to pull on the arm he held.

He was in a precarious pos...
RICHELLE MEAD What If Following Her Heart
Means Rose Could Lose Her
Best Friend Forever?
RICHELLE MEAD Do not do that again," he said stiffly.
"Don't kiss me back then," I retorted.
He stared a...
RICHELLE MEAD Coming to terms with the rhythms of women's lives means coming to terms with life itself, accepting ...
MARGARET MEAD For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elder...
MARGARET MEAD Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and auto...
MARGARET MEAD Our humility rest upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinite...
MARGARET MEAD When human beings have been fascinated by the contemplation of their own hearts, the more intricate ...
MARGARET MEAD People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky...
MARGARET MEAD The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a...
MARGARET MEAD A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to t...
MARGARET MEAD It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as e...
MARGARET MEAD One of the oldest human needs is having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at nig...
MARGARET MEAD If we want to make something really superb on this planet, there is nothing whatever that can stop u...
SHEPHERD MEAD Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read, it merely records the degree of ...
MARGARET MEAD Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With n...
MARGARET MEAD Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.
MARGARET MEAD If I were to be taken hostage, I would not plead for release nor would I want my government to be bl...
MARGARET MEAD Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people ...
MARGARET MEAD The liberals have not softened their view of actuality to make themselves live closer to the dream, ...
MARGARET MEAD The negative cautions of science are never popular. If the experimentalist would not commit himself,...
MARGARET MEAD We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.
MARGARET MEAD Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's ...
MARGARET MEAD Much of the ill-tempered railing against women that has characterized the popular writing of the las...
MARGARET MEAD The natives are superficially agreeable, but they go in for cannibalism, headhunting, infanticide, i...
MARGARET MEAD One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are, when you don't come home at...
MARGARET MEAD He was too perfect, despite being one of the most imperfect people I knew.
RICHELLE MEAD Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if t...
MARGARET MEAD With a few swift steps, Adrian stood in front of me again. The wall was only a couple inches behind ...
RICHELLE MEAD We won't have a society if we destroy the environment
MARGARET MEAD Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must ha...
MARGARET MEAD Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is...
MARGARET MEAD But each time you use spirit, you're more likely to go crazy.”
“Already crazy about you, Sa...
RICHELLE MEAD Wait,” he said. “That’s not a word.”

I looked down to where, in a moment of despe...
RICHELLE MEAD Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.
MARGARET MEAD I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate inform...
MARGARET MEAD Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
MARGARET MEAD Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by ...
MARGARET MEAD I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
MARGARET MEAD We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.
MARGARET MEAD Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who e...
MARGARET MEAD Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
MARGARET MEAD A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever...
MARGARET MEAD Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it...
MARGARET MEAD We cannot be a civilized society if these terrorists are going to have their ways.
MATT MEAD Are you in a suit?' I managed at last, my voice choking up. 'You didn’t have to dress up for me.'<...
RICHELLE MEAD Look, Sage. I don't know much about chemistry or computer hacking or photosynthery, but this is some...
RICHELLE MEAD So many details came into focus. The shape of his lips, the line of his neck. “I’m not dangerous...
RICHELLE MEAD My nails dug into his back, and he trailed his lips down the edge of my chin, down the center of my ...
RICHELLE MEAD I’m not a warrior or a goddess,” I said at last.

Adrian leaned closer. “As far as I...
RICHELLE MEAD I won’t lie. Walking into a room and seeing your girlfriend reading a baby-name book can kind of m...
RICHELLE MEAD Because I’ve got a lot more terms of endearment to use. Honey pie. Sugarplum. Bread pudding."
RICHELLE MEAD Don’t take the high ground and assume you already know what you’ll do. The truth is, when it com...
RICHELLE MEAD Really, Sage? A date?”
I sighed. “Yes, Adrian. A date.”
“A real date. Not, like, d...
RICHELLE MEAD You're not as much of a lost cause as she was. I mean, with her, I had to overcome her deep, epic lo...
RICHELLE MEAD