Quotes of: Eleanor-roosevelt Keyword

Teachers were powerful enough to kill the indigenous languages: they are not powerful enough to bring them back to life.

Language in Danger: The Loss of Linguistic Diversity and the Threat to Our Future

Some sessions are stars and some sessions are stones, but in the end they are all rocks and we build upon them.

A Life Without Limits: A World Champion's Journey

But 'tis a sad thing that all one's happiness is only that the world does not know you are miserable.

Letters to Sir William Temple

A book, for the Sufis, is an instrument as much as it is something to give information....The key is the teacher.

Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

But marrying within one's own family can get monotonous. One has heard all the same family stories, knows all the jokes and all the same recipes. No novelty.

Memoirs of Cleopatra

Reviewing a book written by someone you're living with and sleeping with is, needless to say, wrong.

The Secret History of Wonder Woman

When a great adventure is launched with a powerful thrust, fatigue in the muscles and doubts in the mind are swept away by a fullness that moves life along like a breath from the depths of the soul.

Tamata and the Alliance

Now, women forget all the things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.

Their Eyes Were Watching God

You have no idea how dearly I wish you were of my blood. My daughter, granddaughter. Will you allow me to take pride in what you are?" -- Sandre to Catriana

Tigana

Love is like the sea. It's a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it's different with every shore.

Their Eyes Were Watching God

She had been a solitary child, and then solitary as a woman, drawn into an orbit of her own that took her away from others, even those who would be her friends.

Tigana

So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day.

Their Eyes Were Watching God

But the vagrant owns the whole vast earth that ends only at the nonexistent horizon, and his empire is an intangible one, for his domination and enjoyment of it are things of the spirit.

The Oblivion Seekers

I do not think that a man's rise to power is necessarily the climax of his life or that his loss of office should be equated with his fall.

The Prophet Armed: Trotsky, 1879-1921

It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating them from other people's emotions and from the tragedies and cruelties of the world.

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

The trick for introverts is to honor their styles instead of allowing themselves to be swept up by prevailing norms.

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

There is no giving advice to a young man so much in love.

The Reason Why: The Story of the Fatal Charge of the Light Brigade

The dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tempo of a new era in brilliant labor.

The River of Winged Dreams

In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.

The River of Winged Dreams

The Jefferson style – cultivate his elders, make himself pleasant to his contemporaries, and used his pen and his intellect to shape the debate – arm him well for the national arena.

Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power

Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.

Time Regained