Steelcase Desk Quotes

#1. Liberals have been driven to the desperate expedient of attributing ... social pathology in today's ghettos to 'a legacy of slavery' even though black children grew up with two parents more often under slavery than today.

Thomas Sowell

#2. Environment is undoubtedly a secondary factor in the phenomena of life; it can modify in that it can help or hinder, but it can never create.

Maria Montessori

#3. Every charitable act, no matter how smal,l fills our heart with joy and happiness.

Debasish Mridha

#4. Esteban took a step backwards and took his sweatshirt off. He folded it and placed it on the ground next to the wall. He looked like a matador preparing for a bullfight. I opened my mouth and almost said something ...

Jose N. Harris

#5. In fact, it is often times a detriment for the Government to preemptively legislate on an issue before we can either define it or grasp its impact.

Steve Buyer

#6. And only men could have invented the idea of a king.

David Vann

#7. The true expression of nonviolence is compassion, which is not just a passive emotional response, but a rational stimulus to action.

Mark Kurlansky

#8. Even the spate of clearly well-intentioned films about AIDS only added to the certainty that gay characters wind up dead by the final reel. After all, in the movies, no one lives with HIV ... perhaps the ultimate stigmatization.

Robert Dunbar

#9. Stereotypes involving Christian identity, Christian persecution is so far back in history now that no one fears it being revived, unless you live in China, I guess.

Gregg Easterbrook

#10. If one takes care of the means, the end will take care of itself.

Mahatma Gandhi

#11. The way time here feels simultaneously immense and tiny.

Anthony Doerr

#12. When the alarm bell rings, you'd better wake up and realize that the customer expects more from you today than he did the day before. You'd better find ways to be better.

Gary L. Tooker

#13. I was brought up in Florida, so there isn't much difference between playing there and playing here. The climax are about the same.

Mickey Rivers

#14. Plimpton was a presence. He looked for ways in which he could make himself ridiculous. That made him a great storyteller.

Stefan Fatsis