Famous quotes containing the words emotional state, emotional and/or state:
“Compared to other parents, remarried parents seem more desirous of their childs approval, more alert to the childs emotional state, and more sensitive in their parent-child relations. Perhaps this is the result of heightened empathy for the childs suffering, perhaps it is a guilt reaction; in either case, it gives the child a potent weaponthe power to disrupt the new household and come between parent and the new spouse.”
—Letty Cottin Pogrebin (20th century)
“The worst drugs are as bad as anybodys told you.... Its just a dumb trip, which I cant condemn people if they get into it, because one gets into it for ones own personal, social, emotional reasons. Its something to be avoided if one can help it.”
—John Lennon (19401980)
“The State never intentionally confronts a mans sense, intellectual or moral, but only his body, his senses. It is not armed with superior wit or honesty, but with superior physical strength.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)