Steeno Ploegen Quotes & Sayings

Ideas are interesting, but people are vastly more so. — Sarah Bakewell

Do we believe that the goal of government is to promote equal opportunity for all Americans to make the most of their lives? Or, do we now believe that government's role is to equalize the results of peoples lives? — Paul Ryan

A very rich person should leave his kids enough to do anything, but not enough to do nothing. — Warren Buffett

The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past. — Isaiah Berlin

Down the road someone is practicing scales,
The notes like little fishes vanish with a wink of tails — Louis MacNeice

I decided it was well past time to take him home and place him in bosom of his family. If you had rather I put him in an orphanage, I fully understand. — Cassandra Clare

In practice, sin's counterfeit of God's love is impossible to perfect, for perfection here ends in the void, the undoing of the bonds of creation. The soul that falls away into sin continues to love mortal beloveds, but its attachments lack measure, and so its love goes begging. It wanders about aimlessly in a 'wasteland of need' (regio egestatis). — James Wetzel

I don't think about the styles. I write whatever comes out and I use whatever kind of instrumentation works for those songs. — Lenny Kravitz

George Clooney is a wonderful philanthropist. But I've heard regular people say, "Would he just shut up and be hot?" — Wendy Williams

I don't think much about whether fans will remember me. — Chili Davis