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“The prescription for better health care is more freedom to innovate, not remote-control surgery from Washington.”
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“The ugliest truth, in the end, was still better than the prettiest of lies.”
Source : Harlan Coben (2009). “Tell No One/Gone for Good”, p.754, Delta
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“Michelle Obama is a powerful example of someone who has learned how to align her actions with her values, manage boundaries across domains of life, and embrace change courageously.”
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“So, the international community are all the countries that are important: the United States definitely everywhere; the European Union because it is very important, and also, they do show a great deal of international responsibility; and then the local players.”
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“If you aren't just brought up in your tribe but interact with other people either directly or vicariously, through journalism and literature, you see what life is like from other points of view and are less likely to demonize them or dehumanize others and more likely to empathize with them.”
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“Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.”
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“If the stable gate is closed, climb the fence.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“More and more Americans feel threatened by runaway technology, by large-scale organization, by overcrowding. More and more Americans are appalled by the ravages of industrial progress, by the defacement of nature, by man-made ugliness. If our society continues at its present rate to become less livable as it becomes more affluent, we promise all to end up in sumptuous misery.”
Source : "No Easy Victories". Book by John William Gardner, ed. Helen Rowan, Harper & Row, p. 57, 1968.