184 Quotes by Nancy Gibbs

The path of progress cuts through the four-way intersection of the moral, medical, religious and political - and whichever way you turn, you are likely to run over someone's deeply held beliefs.

It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.

Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip.

My husband and I don't have sons, so we never had to ask ourselves how we'd have felt about them playing football.

A typical smart phone has more computing power than Apollo 11 when it landed a man on the moon.

Maybe we adults idealize our own red-rover days, the hot afternoons spent playing games that required no coaches, eating foods that involved no nutrition, getting dirty in whole new ways and rarely glancing in the direction of a screen of any kind.

Power is not just political. It can be cultural; it can be spiritual.

Accidents at power plants are bad enough. But a leak from a bioreactor could be worse, since bacteria can learn new tricks when you're not looking.

Sure, we want to know what a president believes in... but that doesn't always mean he should tell us.