Arthur Capper Quotes

We now consider as fundamental economic functions of the state, many duties that were left a generation ago to chance.

Arthur Capper

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: politician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 14, 1865 - December 19, 1951

Topics

ChanceGenerationNowLeftEconomic

My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes more than the usual share of divorce, step-children, dysfunction, and obfuscation. I've spent most of my adult life attempting to deconstruct that history and separate fact from fiction.

Melissa Gilbert

LifeFamilyLoveMotherHistory

Nothing ever comes out the way I hope it will. That first vision, that initial vision you have of a book, what it's going to be like when it's done, it begins to go wrong the second you start to write.

Michael Chabon

HopeVisionStartBookYouWrong

At 19 years old, when I came out of St. John's, I was fresh out the 'hood. I was fresh out of Queensbridge.

Metta World Peace

HoodOldYearsFreshOutI Came

Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.

John Updike

MyselfLearnEnoughNowTeachYears

I see people with laptops as being enslaved to something they can't live without.

Stephen Rea

LivePeopleSeeWithoutI SeeBeing

Silence is an ornament for women.

Sophocles

WomenSilenceOrnament

People have this vision of me as a conservative person, but I'm actually quite adventurous.

Tsai Ing-wen

VisionPeopleMePersonConservative

I have decided now that my mother should be the GPS woman, don't you think? That would be fantastic: 'Make a left in 11 miles. Get over now - I want you to be prepared. Turn right on Elm Street, I want to see if Myrna Rosenblatt is still alive. Make your second left by the Dairy Queen. Don't go in, they're anti-Semitic.'

Judy Gold

MotherWomanQueenThinkYouAlive

Virtual simulations allow post-traumatic stress disorder sufferers to re-experience the events that traumatized them, and then slowly desensitize themselves to their impact through repeated recreations involving not just sight and sound but even smell.

Douglas Rushkoff

StressImpactSightSoundEvents

Rather than have joy, I would rather be absent of pain.

Chuck Berry

PainJoyWouldAbsentRatherThan

I'm an Obama supporter, no question. But it doesn't mean there's nothing to learn from the other side.

Brad Pitt

LearnNothingMeanQuestionSide

The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers.

Arthur Erickson

ConfidenceNewTypicalCulturalLack

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