Quotes of: Des-moines Keyword

I don't know if anything I write will endure, but I do try to write it as a narrative that will not only challenge but also entice the reader into the lives of children.

Jonathan Kozol

The process of being filmed was, I found, peculiar but not discomfiting. At 13, you are malleable, adaptable, better able to take the unusual in your stride.

James Lovegrove

Few American presidents have been unhappier or lonelier in office than Woodrow Wilson.

Jill Lepore

A problem with a president who leads by stirring the moral sentiments of voters is that he has got to keep stirring them.

Jill Lepore

Secrecy is what is known, but not to everyone. Privacy is what allows us to keep what we know to ourselves.

Jill Lepore

Epidemics follow patterns because diseases follow patterns. Viruses spread; they reproduce; they die.

Jill Lepore

Germ theory, which secularized infectious disease, had a side effect: it sacralized epidemiology.

Jill Lepore

Damning taxes is a piece of cake. It's defending them that's hard.

Jill Lepore

I always just wanted to be a writer, not necessarily a particular kind of writer.

Jill Lepore

Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays.

Jill Lepore

Throughout the nineteen-seventies and eighties, especially during periods of recession, employees were moved from offices to cubicles.

Jill Lepore

The moon is essentially gray, no color; looks like plaster of Paris or sort of a grayish beach sand.

Jim Lovell

Boys like either dinosaurs or airplanes. I was very much an airplane boy.

Jim Lovell

We need to reform our school lunch programs. We need to get healthy items into the vending machines.

Joan Lunden

Creativity is not a trait that we inherit in our genes or a blessing bestowed by the angels. It's a skill.

Jonah Lehrer

Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.

John Burroughs

Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.

John Calvin

I'm being driven crazy by people who are obsessed with limiting the scope of government, but feel perfectly free to demand that government get involved in women's most personal choices.

Gail Collins

We need a government that does not give in to a globalist agenda, an agenda I am now convinced seeks to bring American as a sovereign nation and the middle class to their knees.

George Noory

Having proceeded to this length, for which they are now ripe, we shall have a formidable rebellion against reason, the principle of all government, and against the very name of liberty.

Henry Knox

We imagined that the mildness of our government and the wishes of the people were so correspondent that we were not as other nations, requiring brutal force to support the laws.

Henry Knox