Bendeguz Steiner Quotes

#1. Give me a Wildness whose glance no civilization can endure.

Henry David Thoreau

#2. Grumbling incoherently, I fished in my jacket pocket for sunglasses. "Fear not, night dweller," Niko said with mocking gravity. "It is merely the sun, something you would see more often if you would roll out of bed before late afternoon.

Rob Thurman

#3. Maybe someday you'll realize that we are both solid despite the cracks.

Amy Reed

#4. The Roman Church has grown and grown, fueled by immigration but also renewed by two pontiffs who have seemed to understand what Tocqueville knew: People want guidance for their souls once they are convinced they have them.

Hugh Hewitt

#5. The jeep would round the bend, be hit by a dozen bullets at once, and that would be the end of his petty history of unfocused groping and unimportant dissatisfactions.

Norman Mailer

#6. Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.

Ayn Rand

#7. Our opportunities to do good are our talents.

Cotton Mather

#8. Nowadays, truth is the greatest news. The mass media are the wholesalers, the peer groups, the retailers of the communications industry.

David Riesman

#9. Her Mao tse-tung t-shirt was stretched so tightly across her chest that the Chairman was grinning broadly

Armistead Maupin

#10. We will submit legislation to the United States Senate which will ... authorize the Congress to undertake judicial review of those signing statements with the view to having the president's acts declared unconstitutional.

Arlen Specter

#11. I was always fascinated with rock 'n' roll, or girls, or something like that when I was a kid.

Gary Sinise

#12. Your life ain't a target for the world to shoot at. The world is a target for your life to shoot at.

Alden Bell

#13. [Louis] Brandeis, like [Tomas] Jefferson, is an equal opportunity critic of bigness. And he, like Jefferson, sees American history as this incredible clash between small producers, farmers, and small business people on the one hand, and wicked oligarchs and financiers and monopolists on the other.

Jeffrey Rosen

#14. Cupping her face, I brushed her lips with my thumb. "You're medicine for my soul, Bailey. Never forget that."
Her naughty gaze shifted into something softer. "Thank you for being brave enough to love me."
Despite her earnest expression, I laughed. "Like I had a choice.

Bijou Hunter

#15. There are very few professions in which people just sit down and think hard for five or six hours a day all by themselves. Of course it's why you want to become a writer - because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it.

Tobias Wolff