Criticising the pay freeze for top earners announced by the chancellor, Alistair Darling, last night, Osborne said: «To sneak out a public sector pay announcement in the middle of a Conservative conference shows these Labour politicians are better at writing
books about courage than displaying it,» a reference to Gordon Brown's book Courage: Eight Portraits.
Sirota gets the last word, calling Ford «an avatar of the most powerful people in this country,» adding: «In this economy, and you've written
a book about courage... I don't really get it.»
The engaging plot can certainly carry the tale, but Hale's likable, introspective heroine makes this also
a book about courage and justice in the face of overwhelming odds.
Not exact matches
In his new
book, The
Courage to Act, former Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke argues policymakers» speeches «aren't just
about policy; they are policy tools.»
In his recent
book, The
Courage to Act, Bernanke writes
about what it was like at the center of the storm.
In order to demonstrate her
courage, she opens the
book with an account of losing her virginity to a boy she «dated» for
about twelve hours.
The author of a new
book, Magnificent Desolation, Aldrin argues, «More than just exploring a hostile new world, Apollo 11 was
about bold vision and great risk,
about the obstacles a great nation could overcome with dedication,
courage and teamwork.
In his influential
book The
Courage to Be Catholic, George Weigel wrote
about the «The Truce of 1968.»
It reminds me of some
books I've read
about teams on Mount Everest... the struggle, the necessity of clear communication, the risk, the danger, the rigor, the
courage.
This problem, too, is very insightfully analyzed by George Weigel in The
Courage To Be Catholic, undoubtedly the best
book on what has gone wrong and what might be done
about it.
On T.S. Eliot Fr Nichols displays greatintellectual and cultural
courage by writing sensibly and approvingly
about Eliot's After Strange Gods, a
book now seen as controversial because of one sentence that some have interpreted as anti-Semitic.
As I further learned
about how her attempts in getting a
book published, which seemed to be shown the door more times than desired in as many years, I had to admire the
courage to hear «No» and still believe in yourself.
Buffalo & Erie County Public Library System Director Mary Jean Jakubowski had a few favorite
books this year, each one
about perseverance, hope and survival: The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah; The Art of Risk: The New Science of
Courage, Caution & Chance by Kayt Sukel; and Etched in Sand: A True Story of Five Siblings Who Survived an Unspeakable Childhood on Long Island by Regina Calcaterra.
-- Tim Draper, Founder, Draper Fisher Jurvetson; Financiers to innovators including Hotmail, Skype, and Overture.com «Tim Ferriss's
book is
about gaining the
courage to streamline your life... But even more than that, it challenges the reader to seriously consider an essential — yet rarely asked — question: What do you really want from life?»
About this
Book: Almighty:
Courage, Resistance, and Existential Peril in the Nuclear Age Dan Zak Blue Rider Press, 2016
That's when I realized (with a gulp) that I needed to write a
book about fear and
courage.
Paul Thomas Anderson for teaching me that it's ALL
about the script and if you have the right actors directors don't have to do anything on set but be a fan, Lumet for his films and his
book, a young directors» must read, Coppola for his
courage in filmmaking, Steven Soderberg for refusing to ever be put in a box and pushing the form as far as he can, Kathryn Bigelow for giving masterclasses in action, James Cameron for Terminator 2 and prove big budget cinema can still be perfect cinema, Sean Penn for bringing his acting chops to directing, David Mamet for his scripts and his dialogue, Nolan for having more heart than most people seem to give him credit for (Memento, Rises, Inception and Interstellar all made me cry.)
This isn't to say the
book is worth much of a shit, but to say that it at least has the
courage to talk
about a rape and a murder where the film only has the mustard to romanticize loss and suggest that 1973 was so long ago the freak next door didn't raise any flags.
From the artistry of Georgia O'Keefe to the
courage of Jackie Robinson, from the strength of Helen Keller to the patriotism of George Washington, President Obama sees the traits of these heroes within his own children, and within all of America's children... This beautiful
book is
about the potential within each of us to pursue our dreams and forge our own paths.
As Bush strategist Karl Rove explained in his
book Courage and Consequence: «When Bush said education was the civil rights struggle of our time or that the absence of an accountability system in our schools meant black, brown, poor, and rural children were getting left behind, it gave listeners important information
about his respect and concern for every family and deepened the impression that he was a different kind of Republican whom suburban voters... could be proud to support.»
The Christian Science Monitor has just named «Educational
Courage» one of the Top 15 «Must - Read»
Books about K - 12 Education in the US:
In my good friend, Cathy Lassiter's
book, Everyday
Courage for School Leaders (2017) she writes about courage and its value in the work of a pri
Courage for School Leaders (2017) she writes
about courage and its value in the work of a pri
courage and its value in the work of a principal.
Her
book's title is The Bedwetter: Stories of
Courage, Redemption, and Pee (and BookPage interviewed her all
about it).
Although relentless in its portrayal of systematic evil, «The
Book of Aron» is nonetheless a story of such candor
about the complexity of heroism that it challenges us to greater
courage.
I expected to find out
about books I might want to read — which I did — but was also absorbed by Will Schwalbe's tribute to his wonderful mother and her story of
courage in the face of pain and illness.
Without them, I would not have had the
courage to put my
book out there, or the voice with which to continue to talk
about it.
It takes
courage to walk into a bookstore and talk
about your
book.
Your
book about making a living with one's writing gave me
courage and also helped me identify, which of the available methods to try first.
For every author in this business, there are three people out there who have a
book in their heads but don't the
courage do anything more than dream
about it.
For Jacob's
Courage, I interviewed Holocaust survivors, purchased some excellent non-fiction
books and memoirs
about the Holocaust and I devoted considerable research on the Internet.
Mr. Wooten talked
about his
book We Are All The Same: A Story of a Boy's
Courage and a Mother's Love, published by Penguin Press.
Perhaps
about the
book that I'd finally mustered the
courage to write just this year?
Focusing on Philip Guston's mature production in abstraction and his later figuration, this
book argues for Guston as a consistent artist whose generic shift in the late 60s, from Monet - like abstract hatchings to the cartoonish forms of his final decade and a half, reminded artists everywhere that
courage is what it's all
about.
Close spoke candidly
about the effect disability had on his life and work in the
book Chronicles of
Courage: Very Special Artists written by Jean Kennedy Smith and George Plimpton and published by Random House.
She's co-authored a
book about her curriculum, Intimacy from the Inside Out:
Courage and Compassion in Couple Therapy along with her coauthors Donna M. Kerpelman and Martha Sweezy.