Joel Kotkin Quotes

#1. We don't see things. We see reflections of our feelings and perceptions.

Debasish Mridha

#2. Music files and downloading have indeed changed the currency of music to a great degree.

Henry Rollins

#3. People don't have a constitutional right to leave loaded guns lying around. And if they choose to do so - and a kid gets shot and killed because of it - it's not an accident. It's negligent homicide.

Kurt Eichenwald

#4. If we could light up the room with pain,
we'd be such a glorious fire.

Ada Limon

#5. It's my instinct more than my voice that keeps me on top.

Conway Twitty

#6. Life is full of problems, although life was wonderful in Barcelona in those days, and problems were called surprises.

Roberto Bolano

#7. Christianity has not failed. It is simply that nations have failed to try it. There would be no war in a God-directed world.

Richard E. Byrd

#8. Some of this is bureaucratic ineptitude and a great deal of this is an administration that doesn't understand the urgency of the situation, and therefore this [Barack Obama] administration has not reached out actively to the private sector and said, we need help.

Carly Fiorina

#9. Cruel and cold is the judgment of man, Cruel as winter, and cold as the snow; But by-and-by will the deed and the plan Be judged by the motive that lieth below.

John L. Bates

#10. What like a bullet can undeceive!

Herman Melville

#11. The human creature is so astonishing, but count on it before anything else to be just that-a creature. A laughing animal, a dangerous one, a clever one, a scared one, but always acting for a reason-a motive that will move the beast towards its desires.

Jeffery Deaver

#12. She loved this man. This wonderful, respectiful, willful man. And she couldn't even tell him.

Justine Dell

#13. What makes cities great, and what leads to their gradual demise? As this book will argue, three critical factors have determined the overall health of cities - the sacredness of place, the ability to provide security and project power, and last, the animating role of commerce.

Joel Kotkin

#14. One chance is all we need.

Aimee Carter

#15. The truth is not what we received today. Once again, we are being used as props in a Pentagon public relations exercise.

Pat Tillman