Contarnos Quotes & Sayings

Intelligence and success are not clear paths to popularity at any age. This complicates everything, because at the same time women need to ... own their success, doing so causes them to be liked less. — Sheryl Sandberg

There was a time when conservative intellectuals raised the level of American public debate and helped to keep it sober. Those days are gone. As for political judgment, the promotion of Sarah Palin as a possible world leader speaks for itself. The Republican Party and the political right will survive, but the conservative intellectual tradition is already dead. And all of us, even liberals like myself, are poorer for it. — Mark Lilla

Authentic Christian Preaching carries a note of authority and a demand for decisions not found elsewhere in society. — Albert Mohler

Since the 1970s, we have witnessed the forces of market fundamentalism strip education of its public values, critical content, and civic responsibilities as part of its broader goal of creating new subjects wedded to consumerism, risk-free relationships, and the destruction of the social state. — Henry Giroux

Everything that is possible happens. — Taylor Jenkins Reid

It is to deny, what the history of the world tells us is true, to suppose that men of ambition and talents will not continue to spring up amongst us. And, when they do, they will as
naturally seek the gratification of their ruling passion, as others have so done before them. — Abraham Lincoln

It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme. — William Graham Sumner