Von Den Steinen Quotes & Sayings

Now it is worth noticing two things about the private substitutes that I have described. The first is that in the aggregate they are probably much more expensive than would be the implementation of the appropriate public policy. The second is that they are extremely poor replacements for the missing outcomes of good public policy. Nevertheless, it is plain that the members of a society can become so alienated from one another, so mistrustful of any form of collective action, that they prefer to go it alone. — Brian Barry

Her. But I may ask you to let me check it occasionally — Iris Johansen

We at the Department of Education are going to provide technical assistance; I've committed $14 million to show states how they might meet this more sophisticated approach. — Margaret Spellings

But the key to our marriage is the capacity to give each other a break. And to realize that it's not how our similarities work together; it's how our differences work together. — Michael J. Fox

The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings. — George Santayana

My life is moving forward in a weird empty narrative, missing one key character, whose current life is a continuous loop. — Jodi Picoult

My view is quite simple. When your dog pees on the carpet, you do not give away your dog. You say, This dog is special. I have to teach him not to pee on the carpet. I feel exactly the same way about men. They need to be taught things. — Jacqueline Bisset

Part of John's meaning of the cross, then, is that it is not only what happens, purely pragmatically, when God's kingdom challenges Caesar's kingdom. It is also what has to happen if God's kingdom, which makes its way (as Jesus insists) by nonviolence rather than by violence, is to win the day. — N. T. Wright

A person must be in tune with the light and dark forces of their nature and remain in harmony with the bands of their own multivariate being. — Kilroy J. Oldster

But there was no response, no one answered, no one paid attention. It's a vivid picture and a strong warning, and the same response we'll get whenever we try to get our fulfillment from a false god - from anyone or anything apart from the one true God. — Lysa TerKeurst

And stay away from bushes."
"Why?"
"Dude, this is South Africa home of the cobras. And I don't mean the hot ones like Ian. — Peter Lerangis