Alice Steinbach Quotes

Life is like that I thought, as I turned the corner to my building. Freedom has its danger as well as its joys. And the sooner we learn to get up after a fall, the better off will be.

Alice Steinbach

• Life
• Freedom
• Fall

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• Tackling affordable housing via land use planning won't necessarily solve the problem.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Problem
  • Planning
  • Housing

• The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.

  

  Harry A. Blackmun
  • Life
  • Women
  • Free

• I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until you're a mother.'

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Friends
  • Mother
  • Understand

• No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Failure
  • Illusion
  • Himself

• Kuhn was the intellectual of whom many scientists said he's 'telling it as is it is' insofar as talking about a process of 'tinkering' in terms of theory and experiment followed by radical changes. But often, what Kuhn had in mind were some very spectacular incidents in the history of the sciences that changed our way of looking at the world.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • World
  • Mind
  • History

• Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.

  

  Rachel Corrie
  • People
  • Trying
  • Military

• It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself you're in control any more.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Control
  • Problem
  • Yourself

• The Bible never tells us what Jesus looked like, and in the earliest surviving paintings of him, he is sometimes depicted as short-haired, sometimes as beardless, with no authoritative version winning out over the others. Yet around 400 A.D., all of the other competing images were replaced by the long-haired, bearded Jesus we know today.

  

  Ian Caldwell
  • Long
  • Today
  • Jesus

• I would never take my children and place them next to missile launchers.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Children
  • Never
  • Place

• John Paul was the first modern pope to grow up in a secular culture: He attended public schools, danced with girls - indeed, as a teenager he had a crush on a beautiful Jewish girl who fled his hometown just ahead of the arrival of the Germans.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Up
  • Beautiful
  • Girl

• Mike Bloomberg may be a Republican these days. But he has been a Democrat for most of his adult life.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Life
  • May
  • Republican

• I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It's a natural process.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Process
  • Songs

• Economics should be defined in terms of what it is about. It should be about how people produce things, how people exchange them, how people earn income, how they pay taxes, how the government provides infrastructure with tax revenue, and how it conducts monetary policy. The subject has to be defined in terms of the object of inquiry.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • People
  • Government
  • Economics

• Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Time
  • Tears
  • Faces

• I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay, and I don't ever want to finish second again. There is a second place bowl game, but it is a game for losers played by losers. It is and always has been an American zeal to be first in anything we do, and to win, and to win, and to win.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Time
  • American
  • Game

• No lifetime is long enough for those who wish to create, Raul. Or for those who simply wish to understand themselves and their lives. It is, perhaps, the curse of being human, but also a blessing.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Long
  • Wish

• I was at the job of reading it for days and days, endlessly daunted and halted by its laborious dullness, its flatulent fatuity, its almost fabulous inconsequentiality. (On H. G. Wells' Joan and Peter) Ch. 2, 'The Late Mr. Wells'

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Job
  • Reading

• Music falls on the silence like a sense, A passion that we feel, not understand.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Music
  • Passion
  • Silence

• The only people I don't answer are bill collectors.

  

  Jimmy Breslin
  • People

• In fact man's career has been less like a mountain torrent hurtling from rock to rock, than a great sluggish river, broken very seldom by rapids.

  

  Olaf Stapledon
  • Great
  • Men
  • Career

• I looked at my mom and her life, and I thought, 'I don't want that.' I don't think my mom wanted it, either. I think my mom did want to be out there and have a career. She loved working. As soon as we were old enough to feed ourselves, she was out.

  

  Jane Lynch
  • Life
  • She
  • Career

• All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Men
  • May
  • Dream

• What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy, and what is art but a curse when they touch not the heart and impel it not to action?

  

  Louis Sullivan
  • Heart
  • Art
  • Education

• Life is like that I thought, as I turned the corner to my building. Freedom has its danger as well as its joys. And the sooner we learn to get up after a fall, the better off will be.

  

  Alice Steinbach
  • Life
  • Freedom
  • Fall