Esbenshade Quotes & Sayings

Any system of education ... which limits instruction to the arts and sciences and rejects the aids of religion in forming the characters of citizens, is essentially defective. — Noah Webster

We'll have a drink and all watch Veronica Mars. I think in the next episode she gets roughed up in a pool hall. Anyone would need a drink while watching that. — Kristen Ashley

Life gives pleasure only to those who explore themselves and discover their strength. — Rakesh Wadhwani

I'm actually writing history. It isn't what you'd call big history. I don't write about presidents and generals ... I write about the man who was ranching, the man who was mining, the man who was opening up the country. — Louis L'Amour

Compared with members of other nations of Western civilization, the ordinary American is a rationalistic being, and there are close relations between his moralism and his rationalism. Even romanticism, transcendentalism, and mysticism tend to be, in the American culture, rational, pragmatic and optimistic. — Gunnar Myrdal

To win it all, winners have to be obsessive about the fundamentals and doing the little things right. — Don Meyer

Delight is to him -- a far, far upward, and inward delight -- who against the proud gods and commodores of this earth, ever stands forth his own inexorable self. — Herman Melville

Ibiza, if you've never been there before, is very overwhelming. It's like nowhere on earth. The best advice is to sleep as late as possible because nothing gets going until around 3am and it goes until like 7 or 8. — Paris Hilton

My mom always says I was born thirty-five years old and that I get more middle-aged every year. — Stephenie Meyer

My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry By Fredrik Backman This — Fredrik Backman

No central banker would disagree with the proposition that inflation is primarily a monetary phenomenon. Not one of them will disagree that every inflation has been accompanied by a rapid increase in the quantity of money and every deflation by a decline in the quantity of money. — Milton Friedman

If superstition could contradict science, the world may as well be on the back of a turtle. But giving into turtle worship was a bridge too far. — Thomm Quackenbush