Quotes of: Eleanor-roosevelt Keyword

Sometimes I long to forget… It is painful to be conscious of two worlds.

Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language

As my former Yale colleague Rogers Smith has put it: "Elegance is not worth that price.

The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past

Before it is science and career, before it is livelihood, before even it is family or love, freedom is sound sleep and safety to notice the play of morning sun.

The Making of the Atomic Bomb

My experiences thus far had me planning to throttle the first Tudor historian I met upon my return for gross dereliction of duty.

Shadow of Night

Why do beautiful women love ugly men?

The Secret History of Wonder Woman

He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.

Their Eyes Were Watching God

An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done 'heard' bout you just what they hope done happened.

Their Eyes Were Watching God

They bowed down to him rather, because he was all of these things, and then again he was all of these things because the town bowed down.

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Look lak we done run our conversation from grass roots tuh pine trees.

Their Eyes Were Watching God

This is desire, daughter, the endless piercing that informs the universe throughout eternity,

The Temple Dancer: A Novel of India

The hunger for land: that great hunger which for more than half a century was to shake Russia and to throw her into a fever, body and mind.

The Prophet Armed: Trotsky, 1879-1921

I was used to being perceived as having a good attitude. Self-control, self-effacement, self-denial. People like this, especially in girls.

The Passion of Alice

Modern architecture only becomes modern with its engagement with the media.

Privacy and Publicity: Modern Architecture as Mass Media

Scores of studies have shown that venting doesn't soothe anger; it fuels it.

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

There is no one more courageous than the person who speaks with the courage of his convictions.

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

We have two ears and one mouth and we should use them proportionally.

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

The key to flow is to pursue an activity for its own sake, not for the rewards it brings.

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

. . . 'exist because there are no longer any , settings in which memory is a real part of everyday experience.' And what are ? [They] are . . . vestiges . . . the rituals of a ritual-less society.

Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century

Broadly put, philosophers think: politicians maneuver. Jefferson's genius was that he was both and could do both, often simultaneously. Such is the art of power.

Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power

This is how you get unstuck. You reach.

Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

A doctor may know more than a peasant, but a peasant and a doctor know more together.

Thrive: Finding Happiness the Blue Zones Way