Lincoln Steffens Quotes

One improvement I have learned from my childhood experience with my father: I do not threaten punishment in the morning. That was awful. Late into the night I would lie awake tossing and wondering what he was going to do to me. Usually he did nothing. A quiet, impressive 'talking to' was all I got.

Lincoln Steffens

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 6, 1866 - August 9, 1936

Topics

FatherMorningImprovementExperience

I think being a good dad is on the list of things to do. But, I will always ski, climb, surf, and be out in the mountains and oceans. It's who I am. My goal is to just keep doing it all and enjoying it.

Jimmy Chin

GoodMountainsI AmClimbThinkOut

From 15 or 16, I always wanted to be an Olympic champion, but I don't think you ever believe it until it actually happens.

Jessica Ennis-Hill

ChampionBelieveThinkYouAlways

Women want to get to know Sarah Palin. And they want to meet her family.

Andrew Breitbart

FamilyWomenKnowWantMeetHer

Marketers have long known that a name can make all the difference when you're trying to move the merch. The kiwifruit was once the Chinese gooseberry, after all - at least until the produce peddlers wised up - and the Chilean sea bass was once the singularly unappetizing Patagonian toothfish.

Jeffrey Kluger

SeaNameTryingLongYouDifference

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

John Ruskin

TruthNeverPainfulMayWholeOnly

People of different faiths, like yours and mine, sometimes wonder where we can meet in common purpose, when there are so many differences in creed and theology. Surely the answer is that we can meet in service, in shared moral convictions about our nation stemming from a common worldview.

Mitt Romney

ServicePurposePeopleDifferences

I believe that when we ask to be led, we are led, and there's nothing too small or esoteric for spiritual help.

Julia Cameron

SpiritualSmallBelieveHelpNothing

Since Hiroshima and the Holocaust, science no longer holds its pristine place as the highest moral authority. Instead, that role is taken by human rights. It follows that any assault on Jewish life - on Jews or Judaism or the Jewish state - must be cast in the language of human rights.

Jonathan Sacks

LifeScienceLanguageHolocaust

A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.

Cornelia Funke

HappyBookLibraryImagine

I got FL studios; I looked up how to make beats and how to record myself, and then I just started making music from there.

Post Malone

MusicMyselfUpStartedGotJust

I'm not saying that I don't like the stuff I put out into the world, because I genuinely enjoy my videos and think they are funny. What I'm saying is that I embrace the fact that I have a punchable face, and that if I could punch myself without feeling it, I would.

Shane Dawson

FunnyMyselfWorldSayingFaceOut

If a horse won't eat it, I don't want to play on it.

Richie Allen

HorsePlayWantEat

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