Sharlet The Family Quotes

#1. Heads of warring nations could learn a lot about how to achieve lasting peace by watching dogs and cats who live in the same house.

Blaize Clement

#2. Some men like to go in for polo, for example, and spend thousands of dollars on ponies. Some go nuts for paintings, and give half a million for a hunk of canvas in a fancy frame. But my passion is baseball.

Tom Yawkey

#3. All of spiritual practice is a matter of relationship: to ourselves, to others, to life's situations.

Jack Kornfield

#4. When the father helps the son, both smile. When the son helps the father, both cry.

~ Chinese proverb

Simon Brooke

#5. How much better to get wisdom than gold! And to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver (Proverbs 16:16 NKJV).

T.D. Jakes

#6. The Family is the oldest and arguably most influential religious political organization in Washington.

Jeff Sharlet

#7. If it's not bourbon or sweatpants, it's going in the garbage ... No, don't get creative. Now is not a creative time. Now is a bourbon and sweatpants time.

Justin Halpern

#8. The Family in particular, but also other really **** conservatives come to call what is "Biblical Capitalism." The idea that capitalism is ordained in the Bible and that inasmuch as we interfere with the market, we're interfering with God's literal and visible hand.

Jeff Sharlet