Quotes of: Eleanor-roosevelt Keyword

Tatlo ang magulang ng henerasyon natin. Ang tatay, ang nanay, at ang mga patalastas o media. Kaya kung mahina yung dalawang nauna, naagawan sila ng ikatlo sa pagpapalaki sa bata.

Lumayo Ka Nga Sa Akin

The more words I have, the more distinct, precise my perceptions become--and such lucidity is a form of joy.

Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language

Given love and opportunity, every child and adult can recover. All who know this and have the capacity to help others should assist as they can.

Life's Lessons Learned: Personal Reflections

All forms are limited. Some of the limitations are time, place, culture, language.

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

Any account of science which does not explicitly describe it as something we believe in is essentially incomplete and a false pretense. It amounts to a claim that science is essentially different from and superior to all human beliefs that are not sc...

The Making of the Atomic Bomb

[...] what's the use of lying down to die as long as we can stand up and walk.

Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival

Sapphires for my bride-to-be and a severed head for the king my brother," said Duke Richard cheerfully. "As St Paul pointed out, gifts may vary but the spirit is the same. In the present instance, a spirit of goodwill.

The Seventh Son

If this is truly the time that will decide, we have no business refusing people who feel the way we do. No right to decide that they must huddle in their homes waiting to see if they are still slaves or not when the summer ends.

Tigana

If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don't keer if you die at dusk. It's so many people never seen de light at all.

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Open Everything' is everything--it is our mind, our heart, our soul, our destiny.

The Open-Source Everything Manifesto: Transparency, Truth, and Trust

Wherever he went he left footprints so firm that nobody could later efface or blur them, not even he himself, when on rare occasions he was tempted to do so.

The Prophet Armed: Trotsky, 1879-1921

The rules of scientific investigation always require us, when we enter the domains of conjecture, to adopt that hypothesis by which the greatest number of known facts and phenomena may be reconciled.

The Physical Geography of the Sea, and Its Meteorology

Big Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful government and in an increasingly powerful private sector will pile the records high with reasons why privacy should give way to national security, to law and order [...] and the like.

Points of Rebellion

In the fluid world of 1919, it was possible to dream of great change, or have nightmares about the collapse of order.

Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World

If personal space is vital to creativity, so is freedom from "peer pressure".

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

If it wasn’t for all those silver wings spread out to help you on your journey, you would’a been dead or someplace screamin’ in a nut house a long time ago.

The River of Winged Dreams

The whole purpose of the construction of The Bridge of Silver Wings was to provide a path leading to The River of Winged Dreams, or to serve as a resting place until the river’s deeper and truer nature revealed itself.

The River of Winged Dreams

September 11, 2001: Citizens of the U.S., besieged by terror’s sting, rose up, weeping glory, as if on eagles’ wings.--from the poem Angel of Remembrance: Candles for September 11, 2001

The River of Winged Dreams

He turned the presidency – and the President's House – into something it had not been before: a center of curiosity and inquiry, of vibrant institution that played informal but important roles in the broader life of the nation, from science to li...

Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power

The political nature of man made it highly unlikely that a society designed to meet regularly would remain peaceable. "The way to make friends quarrel is to pit them in disputation under the public eye," Jefferson said.

Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power

But compassion isn't about solutions. It's about giving all the love that you've got.

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