Kahlenberg Quotes & Sayings

My larger point is that since each of us struggles daily with good and bad impulses, we might want to restructure our social institutions in order to make it a little easier to be good. — Richard D. Kahlenberg

Re-upped and went back because when he comes home the first time everybody says that he isn't the same person and that they don't recognize him, and he sees that it's true: they're all afraid of him. He comes home to them from jungle warfare and not only is he not appreciated but he is feared, so he might as well go back. He wasn't expecting the hero treatment, but everybody looking at him like that? So he goes back for the second tour, and this time he is geared up. Pissed off. Pumped up. A very aggressive warrior. — Philip Roth

Republicans don't want to 'save the world'; they want to save the country from those who would 'save the world. — Richard D. Kahlenberg

Ah, no difficulties can ever daunt me,' replied d'Artagnan: 'my only fear is, of impossibilities.'
'Nothing is impossible,' said the lady, 'to the one who truly loves.'
'Nothing, madame?'
'Nothing' she replied. — Alexandre Dumas

Life loves the liver of it. You must live and life will be good to you. — Maya Angelou

Jesus Christ, with His divine understanding of every understanding of our human nature, understood that not all men were called to the religious life, that by far the vast majority were forced to live in the world, and, to a certain extent, for the world. — James Joyce

It has been an interesting road, but I wouldn't trade any of it for the world, because I feel like all of those instances in my life I felt molded me and strengthened me and made me who I am. — Drew Brees

... whichever of my friends was and is sensitive, touchy even, had to choose... emigration... and I emigrated inwardly, here to the pub for example... — Bohumil Hrabal

There is nothing like 'within' or 'without.' Both mean either the same thing or nothing. — Ramana Maharshi

Once you have looked at the land from atop the Kahlenberg, you will understand what I write and who I am. — Franz Grillparzer

Enthusiasm, like the breath of God, transforms everything. — Gail Sher

Priests and physicians should never look one another in the face. They have no common ground, nor is there any to mediate betweenthem. When the one comes, the other goes. They could not come together without laughter, or a significant silence, for the one's profession is a satire on the other's, and either's success would be the other's failure. — Henry David Thoreau

Responsibility for it lies in the intolerance that can take over a person's mind. — Haruki Murakami

Down with Dukes of Hazzard! — Alec Baldwin

To imagine that it is possible to perform great military deeds without fighting is just empty dreams. — Napoleon Bonaparte

I have plenty of investments that I wish I'd never made. But the model is to lose money on a lot of investments and then make 1,000X or 10,000X on an investment. — Sam Altman