Quotes of: Francis Keyword

Birthdays could be such a bummer when you were older than the country you lived in.

A Quick Bite

The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma.

Trauma and Recovery

come humans, fulfill your evolutionary purpose adn build your hound a fire." Oberon

Trapped

People can become addicted to fame, money, and attention as deeply as they become addicted to drugs.

Think a Second Time

single people without children have a "childish sensitivity and are unwilling or unable to compromise or fit in

The Unit

because God has spoken, and everything else is commentary.

Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith

Sometimes it is only through pain that we become who God wants us to be.

What Are You Afraid Of?

I would rather have nothing than something that was only alright.

The Woman He Loved Before

It is necessary to distinguish between history and fantasy wherever possible. And then use them against each other.

Was

On the journey towards the beloved, you live by dying at every step

The Wasted Vigil

I used to murder people for money, but these days it’s more of a survival technique.

Widow’s Web

This thing between them, this bond—it wasn’t just passion, and it wasn’t wicked. It was love, and it was divine.

When He Was Wicked

How many times have you been called an abomination?” he whispers. “A monster? Worthless?”

The Young Elites

In not only the physical science, but in the real mental silence, the wisdom dawns. (75)

The Yoga Sutras

About 1960, it became clear that it was best for me to bring the experimental part of my research program to a close - there was too much to do on the theoretical aspects - and I began the process of winding down the experiments.

Rudolph A. Marcus

To find a mountain path all by oneself gives a greater feeling of strength than to take a path that is shown.

Self-Analysis

Elizabeth, you resemble nothing so much as a hen trying to hatch a book.

How to Marry a Marquis

I had no specific bent toward science until my grandfather died of stomach cancer. I decided that nobody should suffer that much.

Gertrude B. Elion

Meaning is produced not only by the relationship between the signifier and the signified but also, crucially, by the position of the signifiers in relation to other signifiers.

Jacques Lacan

For many, the icon of the British Museum is the Rosetta Stone, that administrative by-product of the Greek imperial adventure in Africa.

Neil MacGregor

A collection that embraces the whole world allows you to consider the whole world. That is what an institution such as the British Museum is for.

Neil MacGregor