Quotes of: Francis Keyword

Besides Zeus on his throne, Justice has her seat.

The Greek Way

Trust can be a hard lesson; hope still more difficult.

Heart's Blood

Cultures that do not wish to exist cannot be dissuaded from destroying themselves.

How Civilizations Die

The trouble with forgiveness is that some people don't want to be forgiven.

How to Make Friends with Demons

Knowing and feeling are two different things, and feeling is what counts.

Hector and the Search for Happiness

It's one thing thinking something and another thing knowing it.

Hector and the Search for Happiness

Lesson no. 20: Happiness is a certain way of seeing things.

Hector and the Search for Happiness

Even the most powerful woman needs a place to unwind.

Being Elizabeth

The country has turned its loyal inhabitants into wanderers similar to the survivors of an apocalypse.

The Bees Road

The heaviness of loss in her heart hadn't eased, but there was room there for humour, too.

Brown Girl in the Ring

The most important criterion is this: hire someone whose character and humility and attitude you would like to have reproduced in your church and in yourself.

John Ortberg

Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age cannot afford.

Arthur Goldberg

Mother had to support herself at age 18 because it was during the depression and when my grandfather lost the farm and there was no place for her; she worked as an assistant to a maid.

Peter Agre

I completed the first three years of primary school in one year and was admitted to the local school the age of six directly into the fourth year, some two years younger than all my contemporaries.

Sydney Brenner

A trustee is held to something stricter than the morals of the market place. Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.

Benjamin N. Cardozo

I think the idea that you can go this alone is - was a huge mistake. And unfortunately, there was a price paid in terms of suffering and pain for people in New Orleans.

Michael Chertoff

Caregiving requires the intention of love, caretaking requires the intention of fear. Not acting in anger when you are angry requires the intention of love.

Gary Zukav

She was drawn to damaged souls like a moth to a flame. 

Apart From The Crowd

This is one of the defining sorrows of books: that we cannot see one another.

The Areas of My Expertise

I thought grandmothers had to like you. It’s a law or something.

The Adoration of Jenna Fox

Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons.

A History of Reading