Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes
Several decades ago, a detachment of the American right cut itself loose from reason, and it has been drifting along happily ever since. If the birthers are more evidently kooky than the global-warming "skeptics" or the death-panellers or the supply-siders or the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, they are, in their fundamental disregard for the facts, actually mainstream.
Elizabeth Kolbert
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Tell the truth.
Ian Hunter
College is part of the American dream. It shouldn't be part of a financial nightmare for families.
Barbara Mikulski
I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.
C. S. Lewis
To tell you the truth, I hadn't seen any Pixar until I went to see 'Wall-E,' and I watched it and I was shocked to see how adult it was, with the setting in our lives, both present and future, and how they dealt with it... And then quite relieved to find that the one I was working on, 'Up,' how adult it was.
Ed Asner
It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.
Daisaku Ikeda
Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.
Madeleine L'Engle
Wasn’t that their natural right, to know the truth so as to be able to let the truth lead them to do good or evil, as they chose?
Orson Scott Card
To be a great leader, you firstly have to like people. If you don't like people, at the end of the day they will figure this out and you can't lead them too well.
Leonard Lauder
For the social ecologist language is not 'communication.' It is not just 'message.' It is substance. It is the cement that holds humanity together. It creates community and communication. ...Social ecologists need not be 'great' writers; but they have to be respectful writers, caring writers.
Peter Drucker
What you need to keep most in the U.S. is the entrepreneurial spirit.
Alexei Mordashov
Every decision, every debate, no matter how important it is, with the same question: 'What does this mean for the next election? What does it mean for your poll numbers? Is this good for the Democrats or good for the Republicans? Who won the news cycle?' That's just how Washington is. They can't help it. They're obsessed with the sport of politics.
Barack Obama
Several decades ago, a detachment of the American right cut itself loose from reason, and it has been drifting along happily ever since. If the birthers are more evidently kooky than the global-warming "skeptics" or the death-panellers or the supply-siders or the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, they are, in their fundamental disregard for the facts, actually mainstream.
Elizabeth Kolbert