In design as in life, smart can also mean wise, kind, inspiring - and cost-effective. And that has a charm all its… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Dwight Eisenhower was candid in private, but he was circumspect in public. — Nancy Gibbs Candid Copy Share Image
Just because we eat together does not mean we eat right: Domino's alone delivers a million pizzas on an average day. — Nancy Gibbs Alone Copy Share Image
What cultural DNA remains from those first Puritan forays onto American soil may be our love of a fresh start. — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth were slaves by birth, freedom fighters by temperament. — Nancy Gibbs Birth Copy Share Image
The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it. — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Sure, we want to know what a president believes in... but that doesn't always mean he should tell us. — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Pour a liquid out of its container, and it changes shape, fills the space you give it. If you give children a… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
“Nixon to Clinton: "When seeking advice from people who are more experienced than you, tell them what you plan to do first,… — Nancy Gibbs Advice Copy Share Image
After 9/11, whatever the evidence of intelligence failures, many people still saw that attack as almost unimaginable, so brutal and brazen an assault. — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Anyone with the right mix of parental paranoia and entrepreneurial moxie can make a fortune by selling parents the equipment we think… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
We've seen what happens when it serves a president's interest to flaunt his faith - which is almost inevitably does, since every… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Terror works like a musical composition, so many instruments, all in tune, playing perfectly together to create their desired effect. Sorrow and… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
It's hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Members of royal families are born into a world of indulgence and entitlement, and the princelings who grow up that way may… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
I live in a dumb house. Which is not to say that I don't love its quirky charm, its drafty windows and… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Obama promised a return to competence and confidence and asked the nation to believe again that the government could do big things… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
We know what the birth of a revolution looks like: A student stands before a tank. A fruit seller sets himself on… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it's practically encoded into adolescence that you savor your secrets, dress… — Nancy Gibbs Accidents Copy Share Image
The days of the Pentagon Papers debates seem long past, when a sudden transparency yielded insight into fights over war and peace… — Nancy Gibbs Afforded Copy Share Image
Twenty-first century war adds new risks: more and more often there are no front lines, no central command, no rules of engagement… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
The 1950s felt so safe and smug, the '60s so raw and raucous, the revolutions stacked one on top of another, in… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
It's always been a luxury to be able to hop a plane to Paris, to Venice, to the Grand Canyon. — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
While many alien species are harmless, others pose expensive threats to seas and fields and forests. — Nancy Gibbs Alien Copy Share Image
All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together. — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Today's kids aren't taking up arms against their parents; they're too busy texting them. — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Once a conflict has dragged on for a decade, most people are tired of war - and the troubles that flow from… — Nancy Gibbs Conflict Copy Share Image
It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace. — Nancy Gibbs Belief Copy Share Image
In sub-Saharan Africa, fewer than 1 in 5 girls make it to secondary school. — Nancy Gibbs Africa Copy Share Image
My husband and I don't have sons, so we never had to ask ourselves how we'd have felt about them playing football. — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
George W. Bush, though a president's son, is cast as Reagan's heir even more than his father's. — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Enter politics, and you enter the glass house; there are no secrets and no places to hide. — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
