Jim Webb Quotes
World War II brought the Greatest Generation together. Vietnam tore the Baby Boomers apart.
Quotes to Explore
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.
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We kind of like the new Outkast.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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We do have serious energy needs for the country, we are aware that natural gas is especially in demand because of its air quality benefits: 90 percent of new power plants have been natural gas-powered.
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I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack.
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When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
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The older you get, the things that you thought you wanted to do when you were younger, you're checking them off your list because you no longer want to them.
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To put it simply and a bit crudely: Our economy is demanding more well-educated workers than our schools are providing. To attract this scarce resource, communities have to offer more than just jobs.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discover that it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky. This is a very great liberation for the suffering, struggling person, who always thinks that he is alone. This is why art is important. Art would not be important if life were not important, and life is important.
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First off, it's wonderful how much people are supporting me and felt I should have stayed in the competition.
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The test of truth in life is not whether we can remember what we learned in school, but whether we are prepared for change.
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People think of border security in very different ways, but to me, it's very simple: border security is national security.
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Christ commands those who believe to be baptized. Pedobaptists adopt a system which tends to preclude the baptism of believers. They baptize the involuntary infant and deprive him of the privilege of ever professing his faith in the appointed way. If this system were universally adopted, it would banish believers' baptism out of the world.
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World War II brought the Greatest Generation together. Vietnam tore the Baby Boomers apart.
