Quotes of: Lords Keyword

Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values.

Arthur M. Schlesinger

I am convinced that great ideas that are powerfully presented can change a mind in five minutes.

Dennis Prager

I never talk about books in progress. I could decide to change it to a series of seafood recipes, after all.

Guy Gavriel Kay

Many of the issues we face in dealing with rapid climate change are well suited to an engineering mind.

Larry Brilliant

Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.

John Ortberg

The doctrine of preemption has a long and distinguished history in the history of American foreign policy.

John Lewis Gaddis

Barack Obama is one of the greatest politicians in American history.

John Podhoretz

One thing I've learned over these last 30 or 40 years is that people make history. There's no fait accompli to any of this.

Jeremy Rifkin

I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought.

Robert Darnton

My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books.

Tony Judt

Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.

Peter Marshall

I get satisfaction out of seeing stuff that makes real change in the real world. We need a lot more of that and a lot less abstract stuff.

Temple Grandin

It's hard to make something as large as a government change. It's a little bit like building the transcontinental railroad.

Tim O'Reilly

Writing about the future and the past is less a way of dramatizing change than of showing, by way of contrast, what abides.

Walter Kirn

I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did.

Jeff Foxworthy

May the Lord our God prepare us for every event, then comes Life or Death - it is no great matter.

Nathaniel Smith

I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

Saint Augustine

May God our Lord never let me harm anyone when I cannot help him!

Saint Ignatius

We are all different, but when we ask for the Lord's blessings, we must not forget that God created us equal.

Vladimir Putin

God is a freaking character, with enough foibles, tantrums, and paradoxical behaviors to supply a thousand screenplays. But who do you cast?

Walter Kirn

Our Father and Our God, unto thee, O Lord we lift our souls.

William Pennington