Silberman Quotes

#1. If, like Charles Silberman, we think school "should prepare people not just to earn a living but to live a life - a creative, humane, and sensitive life,"22 then children's attitudes toward learning are at least as important as how well they perform at any given task.

Alfie Kohn

#2. Judge Laurence Silberman explains the origins of his ruling against the ban on handguns in Washington, D.C. He explains, 'It wasn't a right to bear arms granted by the Constitution, it was a right that was protected by the Constitution.'

Laurence Silberman

#3. Time was nothing. Seconds were days, were years, were the breaths that caught between their mouths and the bite of Neil's fingernails against his palms, the scrape of teeth against his lower lip and the warm slide of a tongue against his.

Nora Sakavic

#4. God, freedom, and immortality are untenable in the light of pure reason.

Immanuel Kant

#5. what were you thinking?

Erin Hunter

#6. People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.

Alan Moore

#7. By midweek, they persuaded the captain to give them a tour of the engine room.

Steve Silberman

#8. The political writer, then, is the ultimate optimist, believing people are capable of change and using words as one way to try and penetrate the privatism of our lives.

Cherrie Moraga

#9. The Lord can accomplish much more through prayer than any teacher can through teaching, and many times He will also bring great insight within that context.

Dutch Sheets

#10. The real protagonist of scientifiction was science itself, conquering the dark forces of irrationality and ignorance.

Steve Silberman

#11. I'd happily take all those bullets inside you and put them inside of myself

Peter Silberman

#12. The reasons are likely rooted in religion. Playing around with God's creation is simply not allowed. Incidentally, in the past it was precisely the deeply religious people who said: Of course we're playing with God's creation, in fact we're perfecting it. This sort of thinking is frowned upon today.

Hans Von Storch

#13. In 1997, cognitive psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen found that the fathers and grandfathers of children with autism were more likely to be engineers.

Steve Silberman

#14. A cretin can kill you just as efficiently as a genius, and usually a whole lot quicker because a cretin has no conscience.

Eric Van Lustbader

#15. Childhood schizophrenia walked like a duck and quacked like a duck but was not a duck. Instead, it was the psychotic goose that suddenly seemed to be in everyone's backyard.

Steve Silberman

#16. A world in which people with learning difficulties have access to the resources they need to live happier, healthier, more secure and more meaningful lives.

Steve Silberman

#17. It's tragic from how far we've come from 'Hope and Change'.

Ted Cruz

#18. I want her to be happy, and she's most happy with you. Maybe this will make up for ... past mistakes." He shook his head and returned to his normal idiocy. "So, either you say, 'Sure, I'd love to have you along,' or you have a big bird dropping things on your head the whole trip.

Julie Kagawa

#19. Steady, firm, and kind government of prisoners is the truest humanity and the best exercise of duty. It is with convicts as with children: unseasonable indulgence, indiscreetly granted, leads to mischiefs which we may deplore but cannot repair.

Dorothea Dix

#20. A speech-language pathologist named Michelle Garcia Winner told me that many parents in her practice became aware of their own autistic traits only in the wake of their child's diagnosis.

Steve Silberman

#21. Not all the features of atypical human operating systems are bugs.

Steve Silberman

#22. In recent weeks, I have heard former Associated Press reporter Ron Fournier on Fox News twice asserting, quite offhandedly, that President George W. Bush 'lied us into war in Iraq.'

Laurence Silberman

#23. In any event, it is one thing to assert, then or now, that the Iraq war was ill-advised. It is quite another to make the horrendous charge that President Bush lied to or deceived the American people about the threat from Saddam.

Laurence Silberman

#24. Vir prudens non contra ventum mingit. (A wise man does not urinate against the wind.) Roman proverb

L. Michael Hall