Top 17 Jean Bethke Elshtain Quotes
#1. Evangelistic preaching is what Daddy does, I never thought I would.
Franklin Graham
#2. We must never lose the language of justice, for it reminds us of what is at stake and of the importance of keeping justice itself alive in how we fight.
Jean Bethke Elshtain
#3. I think that every job that you can save is important. Every job that you can create is very important and it should not be the number one reason why we invest in infrastructure to create jobs.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#4. The reality is sobering: in the United States one in three girls will become pregnant before age 20, totaling more than 750,000 girls per year.
Jane Fonda
#6. Marriage does not serve primarily to accommodate or to mitigate social tragedy of this sort. Its principal function is to prevent or limit the occurrence of such tragedies in the first place.
Jean Bethke Elshtain
#7. Robin Williams was an airman, a doctor, a genie, a nanny ... and everything in between. But he was one of a kind.
Barack Obama
#8. Children don't heal as well.. they change.. they mutate with disaster and make accomodations.
Anita Shreve
#9. I had Dell for four and a half years, and its sales are still phenomenal, but their operating margins started to contract, so I sold it in early 1999. There's nothing wrong with Dell! It's a fine company. It's just the business risk they took.
Louis Navellier
#10. My mind is incapable of conceiving such a thing as a soul. I may be in error, and man may have a soul; but I simply do not believe it.
Thomas A. Edison
#11. The problem with becoming a public intellectual is that over time you grow more and more public but less and less intellectual.
Jean Bethke Elshtain
#12. Just punishment, which observes restraints, is different from revenge, which knows no limits.
Jean Bethke Elshtain
#14. Though man or angel judge my life and read it like an open scroll, And weigh my heart, I have judge more just than any - my own soul.
Ridgely Torrence
#15. It's because of you when I'm in bed in the morning that I can wind my spring and tell myself I have to live another good day.
Haruki Murakami
#16. One of the few advantages man has over other animals is the ability to choose the way to bring on his own death. Food may well kill me, but it's also what has made life such a pleasure.
Peter Benchley
#17. Somewhere, sometime, somebody taught her to question everything - though it might have been a good thing if he'd also taught her to question the act of questioning.
Wallace Stegner
