Chronicling Of America Quotes & Sayings

Education can also be used as a soft power and as a soft force to transform societies. When I say transform societies it means we can tackle issues in political, social, cultural, economic areas. These are the most important things. — Mozah Bint Nasser Al Missned

In the course of writing 'First Light,' I climbed all over and through the Hale Telescope, where I found rooms, stairways, tunnels, and abandoned machines leaking oil. My notebooks show tooth-marks where I gripped them with my teeth while climbing around inside the telescope, and the notebooks are stained with Flying Horse telescope oil. — Richard Preston

The world is as many times new as there are children in our lives. — Robert Breault

I angle my head down and peer up at him through my lashes in what I hope is an alluring manner. I have zero experience in this area though, so it's possible I look like a total moron. — Rachel Morgan

Pessimists calculate the odds. Optimists believe they can overcome them. — Ted Koppel

I want you to know God, but not because you've made some sort of bargain or deal with Him. You must seek His face because you want to know the Lord and because you want the Lord to be part of your life through all times, not just bad times. — Darlene Franklin

God has a plan for the future and, because He is sovereign, it will come to pass. You can count on it! — Jim George

People are very busy; they are so busy that when they walk in the crowds they see no one, no one but themselves; they hear no voice, no voice but their own voice! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Excess in apparel is another costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked ones. — William Penn

Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion. — Daniel Kahneman

Always recycle wasted time — Benny Bellamacina

I always crave to see more stories about and by people of color, particularly new work by young black writers. — Katori Hall

To have a museum chronicling the great crime that was African slavery in the United States of America would be to acknowledge that the evil was here. Americans prefer to picture the evil that was there, and from which the United States-a unique nation, one without any certifiably wicked leaders throughout its entire history-is exempt. That this country, like every other country, has its tragic past does not sit well with the founding, and still all-powerful belief in American exceptionalism. — Susan Sontag

Oil now, as a result of the Saudi production, is priced so low that there are not going to be new fracking investments made. A lot of companies that have gone into fracking are heavily debt-leveraged, and are beginning to default on their loans. The next wave of defaults that banks are talking about is probably going to be in the fracking industry. When the costs of production are so much more than they can end up getting for the oil, they just stop producing and stop paying their loans. — Michael Hudson