Ann Medlock quote: "A protect-yourself-first-and-foremost idea has subverted the mission of law-enforcement officers, just as it may have degraded the military's."

My parents didn't settle for the lives their parents lived. They stepped out and up, my father lying...
ANN MEDLOCK

If you can't experience the humanity of people who don't look like you, you're not civilized enough ...
ANN MEDLOCK

Even Obama's staunchest supporters are starting to leave him. Last week Michelle Obama demanded ...
ANN COULTER

Know when to tune out, if you listen to too much advice you may wind up making other peoples mistake...
ANN LANDERS

Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
ANN LANDERS

Class never tries to build itself up by tearing others down. Class is already up and need not strive...
ANN LANDERS

Class is considerate of others. It knows that good manners is nothing more than a series of petty sa...
ANN LANDERS

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.
ANN LANDERS

The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.
ANN LANDERS

One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closes friends; i...
ANN LANDERS

Class can 'walk with kings and keep its virtue and talk with crowds and keep the common touch.&#...
ANN LANDERS

People who care about each other enjoy doing things for one another. They don't consider it serv...
ANN LANDERS

If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don&#...
ANN LANDERS

I don't believe that you have to be a cow to know what milk is.
ANN LANDERS

The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one ...
ANN LANDERS

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good...
ANN LANDERS

Too many people today know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
ANN LANDERS

I don't think most people are all heroic or all villainous, so I find ambiguity of motivations t...
ANN NOCENTI

You need that guy like a giraffe needs strep throat.
ANN LANDERS

I'm a little bit more unusual so I consider myself as the black sheep.
ANN WILSON

Maybe, sometimes, it's easier to be mad at the people you trust because you know they'll always love...
ANN BRASHARES

We all have burdens and we need to learn to carry each other's burdens, lighten each other's...
ANN ROMNEY

You can't fool yourself anymore that your art is your art. When you're not getting paid for ...
ANN POWERS

If Donald Trump's candidacy has proven anything, it's that the media has no idea what Americ...
ANN COULTER

If I were a 40-year-old woman, 40-to-50, I'd want to be getting my mammograms. They catch cancer...
ANN ROMNEY

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
ANN LANDERS

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
ANN LANDERS

I often feel that I have a split personality. I love more than anything to be in my study writing, b...
ANN HOOD

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good...
ANN LANDERS

There can be life after breast cancer. The prerequisite is early detection.
ANN JILLIAN

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love eva...
ANN OAKLEY

Where there's smoke around a conservative, there are journalists furiously rubbing two sticks togeth...
ANN COULTER

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares...
ANN LANDERS

After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high...
ANN RICHARDS

Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are ...
ANN LANDERS

Different people were good at different things, Lena mused. Lena was good at writing thank-you notes...
ANN BRASHARES

You thought you had the choice to stay still or move forward, but your didn't. As long as your heart...
ANN BRASHARES

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolut...
ANN LANDERS

... be radical about grace and relentless about truth and resolute about holiness...
ANN VOSKAMP

Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend y...
ANN PATCHETT

I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days befo...
ANN VOSKAMP

I believe in recovery, and as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that y...
ANN RICHARDS

It takes a fearless, unflinching love and deep humility to accept the universe as it is. The most ef...
ANN DRUYAN

Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.
ANN VOSKAMP

Mother Mary of Anabolic Grace, we got Teras incoming?” He levels angry blue eyes on me. “You’r...
ANN AGUIRRE

The ocean was the best place, of course. That was what she loved most. It was a feeling of freedom l...
ANN BRASHARES

There are always women who will take men on their own terms. If I were a man I wouldn't bother to ch...
ANN OAKLEY

Men are the enemies of women. Promising sublime intimacy, unequalled passion, amazing security and g...
ANN OAKLEY

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
ANN LANDERS

I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college befor...
ANN RICHARDS

If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it wo...
ANN LANDERS

Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
ANN LANDERS

Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of ...
ANN OAKLEY

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
ANN LANDERS

No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence.
ANN LANDERS

Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with ...
ANN LANDERS

What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, st...
ANN LANDERS

The real question is why are millions of people so unhappy, so bored, so unfulfilled, that they are ...
ANN LANDERS

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.
ANN OAKLEY

One out of four people in this country is mentally imbalanced. Think of your three closest friends. ...
ANN LANDERS

At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The t...
ANN LANDERS

The primary function of myth is to validate an existing social order. Myth enshrines conservative so...
ANN OAKLEY

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.
ANN OAKLEY

Bragging is not an attractive trait, but let's be honest. A man who catches a big fish doesn't go ho...
ANN LANDERS

Let us keep Christmas beautiful Without a thought of greed, That it might live forevermore To fill o...
ANN SCHULTZ

It seems to me that the problem with diaries, and the reason that most of them are so boring, is tha...
ANN BEATTIE

If you marry a man who cheats on his wife, you'll be married to a man who cheats on his wife.
ANN LANDERS

Bragging is not an attractive trait, but let's be honest. A man who catches a big fish doesn't go h...
ANN LANDERS

Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with ...
ANN LANDERS

Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
ANN LANDERS

The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.
ANN LANDERS

When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the f...
ANN RADCLIFFE

When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.
ANN RADCLIFFE

It is dismal coming home, when there is nobody to welcome one!
ANN RADCLIFFE

There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not e...
ANN RADCLIFFE

Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each o...
ANN RADCLIFFE

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good...
ANN LANDERS

What has a man's face to do with his character? Can a man of good character help having a disagreeab...
ANN RADCLIFFE

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.
ANN RADCLIFFE

What are riches - grandeur - health itself, to the luxury of a pure conscience, the health of the so...
ANN RADCLIFFE

Though the vicious can sometimes pour affliction upon the good, their power is transient and their p...
ANN RADCLIFFE

The refreshing pleasure from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the confinemen...
ANN RADCLIFFE

Employment is the surest antidote to sorrow.
ANN RADCLIFFE

I tasted too what was called the sweet of revenge - but it was transient, it expired even with the o...
ANN RADCLIFFE

Through the eight books in 'The Treasure Chest' series, readers will meet twins Maisie and F...
ANN HOOD

In my adult life, I had spent a lot of time angry at God, mostly over the sudden deaths in my family...
ANN HOOD

Admittedly, no Republican can get elected statewide in California anymore, but nor can what we think...
ANN COULTER

Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonder...
ANN LANDERS

I think in the immediate days after 9/11, the administration acted very, very well. I liked the deci...
ANN RICHARDS

I'm accusing Republicans of thinking the Jews have so much power.
ANN COULTER

If a university official's letter accusing a speaker of having a proclivity to commit speech cri...
ANN COULTER

We were a family that made our Halloween costumes. Or, more accurately, my mother made them. She too...
ANN HOOD

The distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become ...
ANN BRASHARES

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
ANN LANDERS

I don't mind being a tourist at all, and a gawker. I just walk around.
ANN ROBINSON

There was a Japantown in San Francisco, but after the internment camps that locked up all the Japane...
ANN NOCENTI

If only we could get Muslims to boycott all airlines, we could dispense with airport security altoge...
ANN COULTER

Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career...
ANN OAKLEY

Key to success for the education of young African girls is building a model that works with communit...
ANN COTTON

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of ...
ANN LANDERS

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.
ANN LANDERS

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of al...
ANN LANDERS

I have learned that there is more power in a good strong hug than in a thousand meaningful words.
ANN HOOD

On the campaign, I've had the privilege of advocating for important issues that affect all women...
ANN CALLIS

Multiple Sclerosis is obviously close to my heart and I'm determined to make a difference in the...
ANN ROMNEY

I advise keeping four feet on the floor and all hands on deck.
ANN LANDERS

I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give...
ANN VOSKAMP

The brave who focus on all things good and all things beautiful and all things true, even in the sma...
ANN VOSKAMP

Any Republican who says he can work with Hillary Clinton is a traitor to the nation.
ANN COULTER

Adults are tempted to produce and perform Christmas for their kids and their families, and they arri...
ANN VOSKAMP

Sometimes God answers our questions with questions.
ANN VOSKAMP

I think the fall in Eden was ultimately a failure to give thanks.
ANN VOSKAMP

Get this, kids - how a man proposes isn't what makes him romantic. It's how a man purposes t...
ANN VOSKAMP

A simplified Christmas isn't about circumstances as much as it is about focus.
ANN VOSKAMP

I'm not a fast writer at all. I come empty and wait upon the Lord. So it really is all a waiting...
ANN VOSKAMP

The real romantics imagine greying and sagging and wrinkling as the deepening of something sacred.
ANN VOSKAMP

Whatever I'm writing comes organically out of my life.
ANN VOSKAMP

I write a chapter, then edit it and edit it and edit it and edit it. I don't think we mine creat...
ANN VOSKAMP

Gratitude's not a natural posture. The prince of darkness is ultimately a spoiled ingrate, and I...
ANN VOSKAMP

My husband is Dutch, and his family, when you sat down to eat food at the table, you never left the ...
ANN VOSKAMP

Counting one thousand gifts, I discovered I could count on God.
ANN VOSKAMP

I came into this world the way every person on the planet does - with clenched fists.
ANN VOSKAMP

Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, ab...
ANN VOSKAMP

When we can't bottle our tears up anymore, God catches every one in His bottle. God's catchi...
ANN VOSKAMP

Romance isn't measured by how viral your proposal goes. The Internet age may try to sell you som...
ANN VOSKAMP

Really good writing, from my perspective, runs a lot like a visual on the screen. You need to create...
ANN VOSKAMP

Giving thanks is that: making the canyon of pain into a megaphone to proclaim the ultimate goodness ...
ANN VOSKAMP

Measuring sticks try to rank some people as big and some people as small - but we aren't sizes. ...
ANN VOSKAMP

Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But it's even more than that - Comparison makes you a t...
ANN VOSKAMP

In a storm of struggles, I have tried to control the elements, clasp the fist tight so as to protect...
ANN VOSKAMP

When grief is deepest, words are fewest.
ANN VOSKAMP

Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without hav...
ANN LANDERS

I just feel like I'm a very lucky person to have a new life outside of politics.
ANN RICHARDS

Be greedy for social change, and your life will be endlessly enriched. The only failure lies in not ...
ANN COTTON

And I cannot tell you how much I appreciate that because the days are long, the road is hard, the tr...
ANN ROMNEY

Sometimes when I'm watching television and something, an image, will come on that has to do with...
ANN RICHARDS

'Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell' by Susanna Clarke is a big, thick book. About a thousan...
ANN LECKIE

I've been in this business for a long time, and I no longer think that anything that I do by way...
ANN BEATTIE

Katana is a trained, disciplined martial artist. She removes herself from Birds of Prey to go on a p...
ANN NOCENTI

You didn't have to go on location if you could just shoot down City Hall, LA.
ANN ROBINSON

We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren'...
ANN COULTER

Liberals are stalwart defenders of civil liberties - provided we're only talking about criminals...
ANN COULTER

I have leveled with the girls - from Anchorage to Amarillo.
I tell them that all marriages are ...
ANN LANDERS

What liberals mean by 'goose-stepping' or 'ethnic cleansing' is generally something ...
ANN COULTER

Occasionally, I hear grumbles about everything being a series or a trilogy, but apart from the quest...
ANN LECKIE

For love to flourish there has to be trust. Promises don’t matter as much as
personal choice.
ANN AGUIRRE

Lena wished that love were something you could flip on and off. You could turn it on when you felt g...
ANN BRASHARES

When I fully enter time’s swift current, enter into the current moment with the weight of all my a...
ANN VOSKAMP

Build into each budget the cost of hiring and don't lump yourself with capital investment.
ANN MACBETH

I know for certain people I'm championing a struggle that they're going through.
ANN ROMNEY

Shetland's influences are far more Scandinavian than Celtic.
ANN CLEEVES

The critics had an image of me, and they wouldn't accept any other... I was a cartoon character....
ANN-MARGRET

Four years of Jimmy Carter gave us two titanic Reagan landslides, peace and prosperity for eight ble...
ANN COULTER

Black is not sad. Bright colors are what depresses me. They’re so… empty. Black is poetic. How d...
ANN DEMEULEMEESTER

The exclusion of girls from education is an issue of justice. But it's also an issue of economic...
ANN COTTON

It is in this spirit of community that we have decided to forego this traditional celebration at thi...
ANN SNYDER

A very special thanks to all these organizations. They quickly responded to a sudden and pressing ne...
ANN SNYDER

Under the extraordinary leadership of Carol Mitchener, all of our staff members have banded together...
ANN SNYDER

They are incredible people who have accomplished miracles and will accomplish many more before this ...
ANN SNYDER

In addition to providing for these basic needs, we also ask evacuees if there are other very importa...
ANN SNYDER

These outdoor restaurants are wonderful,
ANN SNYDER

The pen and pencil of the 21st century is the computer.
ANN SMITH

We kept finding that we didn't have engineers trained for the jobs companies moving here needed.
ANN SMITH

The Busy Bee Cafe was a popular hangout, especially after the young people attended the Princess The...
ANN SMITH

We are not only letting them know they will see an increase, but letting them know how they can save...
ANN SMITH

How do you market Dane County as a whole, when there is some real divergence?
ANN SMITH

We're still waiting for word,
ANN SMITH

generally what we are also seeing.
ANN SMITH

It used to take forever to achieve even 70 percent generic uptake. Consumers are much more willing t...
ANN SMITH

Once Validation Authority is fully deployed, more than 800,000 Army personnel will be able to use th...
ANN SMITH

To imagine that an issue of this magnitude would get such an abbreviated report is unbelievably iron...
ANN SMITH

The only manipulations they can use are what the state gives them. I hand them all out, and I send t...
ANN SIMS

The object is to standardize the test across the state, and the easiest way for the state to do that...
ANN SIMS

I'm here until the end of June, and my goal is to continue the really good work we've been doing. I ...
ANN SIMS

I have immediate plans to pursue a doctoral degree in education. That will be more convenient if I'm...
ANN SIMS

Personally and professionally, I did not feel that I could commit to the job for three years, and as...
ANN SIMS

None of this has been granted for us yet to use.
ANN SIMS

I believe it's what we need to do for the community and to show support, so that nobody is forgotten...
ANN SIMPSON

Then (she was) dragged into a boy's restroom by a 15-year-old male student and allegedly was sexuall...
ANN SIMPSON

As a result, this potential source of funding will be delayed well beyond the six month period.
ANN SIMPSON

We understand the legislation to place a bond measure before California voters in June 2006, that th...
ANN SIMPSON

A further delay of six months would cost the Postal Service over $2 million, at a minimum, in mainte...
ANN SIMPSON

We notified our principals (Wednesday) and our student support service department is working closely...
ANN SIMPSON

I can't think of a greater honor than to have a dorm named after you. You really don't know what col...
ANN SIMPSON

You want to make sure, if you've got those little ones, that you have enough entertainment.
ANN SEXTON

After a disaster strikes, it can be very devastating and very challenging. You're going to need a lo...
ANN SEXTON

That can vary from refrigerator-to-refrigerator obviously... if it's a good working refrigerator, 24...
ANN SEXTON

The American Red Cross recommends that you have (a minimum of) a gallon of water per family member i...
ANN SEXTON

Many of the rescued animals will be brought to the Saline County facility to be rehabilitated and th...
ANN SANDERS

We hope our students will become better citizens of the world and have a better appreciation of thei...
ANN SANDERS

We need $6,000 to do this.
ANN SANDERS

There has been a lot of dog fighting down there they have to roam around and look for food. They hav...
ANN SANDERS

We have only enough food for about two days,
ANN SANDERS

The why of murder always fascinates me so much more than the how.
ANN RULE

Some writers hate to go to trials, but I love trials.
ANN RULE

Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work.
ANN RULE

I'm publicizing the book that's done. I'm writing the book that's in the hopper, and I'm doing a lit...
ANN RULE

I want to warn potential victims. Many of them are women, and many of them are battered women. It's ...
ANN RULE

I always want to give the victim a voice.
ANN RULE

I always say that bad women are fewer than men, but when you get one, they're fascinating because th...
ANN RULE

A protect-yourself-first-and-foremost idea has subverted the mission of law-enforcement officers, just as it may have degraded the military's.

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A protect-yourself-first-and-foremost idea has subverted the mission of law-enforcement officers, just as it may have degraded the military's.

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