Quotes of: Eleanor-roosevelt Keyword

Once the troops move into Cambodia, the colleges and universities of this country were on the verge of civil war. Many closed down. The students were up in arms. And it looked very much like there were going to be real problems in this country.

William Kunstler

Eleanor was all apologies, but Sarah enjoyed seeing a bit more of the Czech countryside. You probably couldn't say that you had really seen a country if all you had seen was a city or two. You had to see where the food was grown, what the riverbanks ...

City of Dark Magic

She had the kind of smile you see in toothpaste commercials, where you can see practically all of somebody's teeth. She should smile like that all the time, Park thought; it made her face cross over from weird to beautiful. He wanted to make her smil...

Eleanor & Park

I don't think my writing has much to do with my age. For me, my biography is more about what I was reading at what age. It's more of an intellectual thing of wanting to be free to write and think without being too bound by categorisation. I don't thi...

Helen Oyeyemi

She tugged warningly on his shirt. "I am serious! Are you going to marry me, Sean? Finally?" He smiled, and the light of his smile filled his eyes. "Damn it, Elle! Will you not let me take the lead? Ladies do not propose marriage!" ~Sean O'Neill & El...

The Stolen Bride

The War Department in Washington briefly weighed more ambitious schemes to relieve the Americans on a large scale before it was too late. But by Christmas of 1941, Washington had already come to regard Bataan as a lost cause. President Roosevelt had ...

Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission

There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction. As Police Commissioner it was my duty to deal with all kinds of squalid misery and hideous and unspeakable in...

Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children

A female feline named Katta Is getting fatta and fatta But she's pretty and purry And funny and furry So what does an ounce or two matta?

The Cat Who Went Up the Creek

Chicago is not the most corrupt of cities. The state of New Jersey has a couple. Need we mention Nevada? Chicago, though, is the Big Daddy. Not more corrupt, just more theatrical, more colorful in its shadiness.

Chicago

The first requirement of a sound body of law is, that it should correspond with the actual feelings and demands of the community, whether right or wrong.

The Common Law

Concentrated power is bad" "(name of chapter)

Change to Chains-The 6,000 Year Quest for Control -Volume I-Rise of the Republic

A PRIME TRUTH - MAN IS SELFISH (Name of chapter)

Change to Chains-The 6,000 Year Quest for Control -Volume I-Rise of the Republic

Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it was.

Christmas When Music Almost Killed the World

Got just enough room to be a friend of yours. Oh I hope you got room to be a friend of mine.

Christmas When Music Almost Killed the World

Where can one buy a lit of that *Right Stuff* bravado required to shrug off the fact that your airplane is now a convertible?

Destination Truth: Memoirs of a Monster Hunter

Tell me this. What is it with men and feeling like they have to act like self-destructive superheroes whenever trouble shows up?” “It’s the only way we know how to love.

The Demonologist

Even for the most excitable preacher, there was nothing sinful about a waffle.

The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age

Time (again, Time) like the soul, wears many faces, many bodies and climates and attitudes. The past is one face, the present a second and the future yet another.

Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love

It is indeed the duty of historians to stress the contrast between the standards of the past and the standards of the present. Some fulfil that duty on purpose, others by accident.

Europe

[...] the success of Egyptian surgery in setting broken bones is very fully demonstrated in the large number of well-joined fractures found in the ancient skeletons.

The Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus, 2 Vols

To Whom It May Concern-- Only four words of advice: It can be done.

Four Corners: A Journey into the Heart of Papua New Guinea