Every story makes a promise to the reader. Actually, two promises, one emotional and one intellectual, since the function of stories is to make us both feel and think.


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America will be far safer if we reduce the chances of a terrorist attack in one of our cities than i...
NANCY PELOSI
We have so much room for improvement. Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory......
NANCY PELOSI
Public education grants secular worldviews an exclusive monopoly in the classroom.
NANCY PEARCEY
The Tea Party has imparted political energy to common-sense American constitutionalism.
NANCY PEARCEY
Urban areas tend to attract members of the 'knowledge class' - people who work with ideas, d...
NANCY PEARCEY
The defense of marriage is the defense of freedom. Neither of which is obsolete.
NANCY PEARCEY
Many journalists are influenced by a myopic multiculturalism that is suspicious of anything Western,...
NANCY PEARCEY
The human mind inherently seeks intelligible order. Thus the conviction that such an order exists to...
NANCY PEARCEY
My aim in homeschooling is to give my children the ability to be an adult learner, a skill set that ...
NANCY PEARCEY
Pro-lifers have long been castigated for bringing private values into the public square. But actuall...
NANCY PEARCEY
Indigenous people have discovered that Christianity is not inherently Western but universal - 't...
NANCY PEARCEY
Homeschoolers are the ultimate do-it-yourselfers. They are self-motivated and self-directed, indepen...
NANCY PEARCEY
America is a knowledge-based society, where information counts as much as material resources. Theref...
NANCY PEARCEY
Schools ought to teach students to challenge secular ideologies masquerading as science in the class...
NANCY PEARCEY
If pro-abortionists want to commit intellectual suicide and deny scientific facts, that's their ...
NANCY PEARCEY
The word 'tolerance' once meant we all have the right to argue rationally for our deepest co...
NANCY PEARCEY
Modern secular thought has its own dualism: It treats only the physical world as knowable and testab...
NANCY PEARCEY
The White House should always be a friend to American freedom.
NANCY PEARCEY
We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, w...
NANCY PEARCEY
America faces a fundamental choice: either the blessings of liberty or the servitude of liberalism. ...
NANCY PEARCEY
Beginning under the Roman Empire, intellectual leadership in the West had been provided by Christian...
NANCY PEARCEY
In Gnosticism, the physical world did not ultimately matter - which meant physical suffering did not...
NANCY PEARCEY
I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I...
NANCY MITFORD
I Love children, especially when they cry for then someone takes them away.
NANCY MITFORD
To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.
NANCY MITFORD
Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?
NANCY MITFORD
I'm no actor. And I wasn't like George Lucas or Spielberg, making home movies as a teenager,...
NANCY MEYERS
I don't want to be known as the one who makes movies for older people.
NANCY MEYERS
I wasn't the kind of kid like Spielberg or Lucas who knew to go to film school. I didn't kno...
NANCY MEYERS
I really wanted to be a writer.
NANCY MEYERS
My movies are not messed with by the studios.
NANCY MEYERS
I don't diet, I don't do fads, I've just decided to not eat carbs. So no more bread and ...
NANCY MEYERS
I like to eat meals I will remember. Otherwise, what's the point?
NANCY MEYERS
We don't want to be our own niche. We're filmmakers like everybody. How many years in a row ...
NANCY MEYERS
There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You&#...
NANCY MEYERS
Being part of a team helped me so much. I know the fact that there was a man in the room with me all...
NANCY MEYERS
I don't shoot movies quickly because I get a lot of coverage and a lot of angles, so we have all...
NANCY MEYERS
I've always been blessed with confidence. I am a glass-half-full person. My first movie, 'Pr...
NANCY MEYERS
Normally I don't watch myself, because I'm not very objective.
NANCY MCKEON
I started working at the age of 2, doing commercials and modeling in New York.
NANCY MCKEON