Coontz Author Quotes & Sayings

Innovations succeed when failure is seen as a learning step to great success. — Pearl Zhu

The curiosity of the human mind is essential if you want citizens who think rather than accept the first nonsense they come to. — Francois Englert

Just as some historians seemed more shocked that the author of the Declaration of Independence had sex with Sally Hemmings than by the fact that he owned her, Clinton received far more censure for his sexual misdeeds than for other moral lapses, such as his politically motivated decision to ignore the finding of a bipartisan panel that issuing needles to drug addicts would save lives and curtail the spread of AIDS without increasing drug addiction. — Stephanie Coontz

The Didache is the earliest known document outside the NT to identify the problem of settled faith communities in conflict with traveling, itinerant preachers and prophets. The Didachist does not doubt the validity of such persons, but recognizes that not all of them are worthy witnesses to the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. Those who teach falsely for their own gain are identified as "Christ peddlars," a term known first from the Didache — Clayton N. Jefford

Your life can change in an instant. that instant can last forever. — Laura Kasischke

Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous. — Yves Saint-Laurent