Shelby Steele Quotes

#1. It is odd there are many movies with many men. But generally movies have one woman, or maybe the older woman and the younger girl.

Carla Gugino

#2. The promised land guarantees nothing. It is only an opportunity, not a deliverance.

Shelby Steele

#3. A black conservative is a black who dissents from the victimization explanation of black fate.

Shelby Steele

#4. Every single progressive education fad of the past thirty years has hurt poor black children.

Shelby Steele

#5. It's definitely particular to each situation, but whether it is a long history or someone that you're intimidated by or someone that you didn't think you ever had a shot at, at the end of the day, I think we're all living through high school, every day.

John Krasinski

#6. But can one actually see beauty with eyes blurred by the lack of almost everything a human being needs?

Paulo Lins

#7. When you're on stage singing, you're naked. Your voice is something very intimate, and that's why I'm scared every time before I perform. It doesn't matter if I'm singing for a king or a queen or the Pope, it's enough to be in front of anybody. I suffer, but I can't do anything about it.

Andrea Bocelli

#8. They did not weave their lives around yours. They had their own lives, which were mysterious to you.

Garrison Keillor

#9. I am a part of all you see In Nature: part of all you feel: I am the impact of the bee Upon the blossom; in the tree I am the sap that shall reveal The leaf, the bloom that flows and flutes Up from the darkness through its roots.

Madison Cawein

#10. We often observe that there is abundance of capital to be had at low rates of interest, while there are also large numbers of artisans starving for want of employment.

William Stanley Jevons

#11. He is no fool, Kublai. He understands far better than you realize. The khan's vast armies cannot return to being herdsmen, not anymore. He is riding the tiger now, my son. He dare not climb down.

Conn Iggulden

#12. You gave me the courage to love. To dared to dream for things I never imagined were possible for me.

D.C. Akers

#13. Skill, education, money aren't the difference makers, passion is. If you've passion to achieve something, there's nothing that can stop you.

Assegid Habtewold

#14. Freedom always carries a burden of proof, always throws us back on ourselves.

Shelby Steele

#15. It has been my observation that whatever a person hungers for, Satan will appear to offer in exchange for a spiritual compromise.

James C. Dobson

#16. It is time for blacks to begin the shift from a wartime to a peacetime identity, from fighting for opportunity to the seizing of it.

Shelby Steele

#17. Back then: to be regarded as well-known, one had to be great. Today: to be regarded as great, one has to be well-known.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#18. Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn't come before.

Shelby Steele