Stephanie Coontz Quotes

Throughout history, people with few educational or economic resources and little bargaining power have often looked to authoritarian, ruthless people to stand up for them.

Stephanie Coontz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 31, 1944

Topics

PowerHistoryPeopleStand UpStand

I can die a happy man never having been president of the United States of America. But it doesn't mean I won't run.

Joe Biden

ManHappyAmericaDieI CanRun

Our Keystone legislation received strong bipartisan support in the Senate. Although it didn't receive the 60 votes necessary for passage, 56 senators - a majority - voted in favor of the bill. Despite President Obama's actively lobbying against the bill, we still won the support of 11 Democrats.

John Hoeven

SupportStrongPresidentDemocrats

My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers.

John Wayne

MeSaturdayGoMoviesAlwaysEvery

I think I'm most proud of my family right now. I'm more into that then I've ever been. It also gives a new area to draw from in creativity with my songs.

Merle Haggard

FamilyCreativityProudThinkNew

The work of artists is to find what's humanly possible - possibility's furthest reaches.

Tony Kushner

WorkFindPossibleArtistsFurthest

I love the experience of getting to direct because I can have all of the fun of helping shape the show, but I don't have to actually do it, so I don't have to deal with the nerves.

Tom Lenk

LoveExperienceFunI CanShape

A war can perhaps be won single-handedly. But peace - lasting peace - cannot be secured without the support of all.

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

PeaceWarSupportWithoutCannot

During one new moon at perigee, I stood on high ground, watching salt ponds overflow, cover the beach, and meet the ocean. Because the moon was invisible, the water was black as it drowned the sand, and the event felt primal - which in fact it was, because it was nature.

Luanne Rice

NatureWaterBeachOceanMoonBlack

I pestered the hell out of everybody I ran into until I could play the guitar well enough to write and sing with it.

Don Johnson

GuitarHellEnoughPlayWriteOut

There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films.

Christopher Hampton

YouBadAdaptMoreAlwaysTheory

'John Henry Days' was already half in the can before my first book came out, so I'd already started something that was big and sprawling - I just had to finish it.

Colson Whitehead

BookFirstFinishOutDaysBig

You could make any song sound creepy if you wanted. It's all about the inflection.

Willie Nelson

SongYouSoundMakeWantedAbout

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