Quotes of: George-w Keyword

The thing I love most about my job is watching people age backward, becoming more lively and energetic as they free themselves from situations that are toxic to their essential selves.

Martha Beck

My big running discovery was around Stanley Park in Vancouver. Miss it. That's a six-mile loop. Now I smile when I get four miles done. Age is a beast.

Michael Weatherly

We don't get the greatest tools to deal with anger. It's like, 'Hey, count to 10.' When someone really upsets me, how do I respond? I don't usually start counting to 10 and breathing deeply.

Woody Harrelson

Newspapers provided a common culture of aspiration.

1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War

She is a jewel far richer than a mountain of coin could bring!

His Last Mistress

They do not call him the terror of husbands and lovers for no reason...

His Last Mistress

Give a man a hoe and he is something to exploit. Give him a book and he is something to fear.

The Joy of Books

the more aware they become,however vaugely,of ambitions & of threats which transcend their immediate locales, the more trapped they seem to feel.

The Sociological Imagination

P6-the sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within sociey.

The Sociological Imagination

I waste so much time sleeping. And time is of all losses the most irrecuperable, for it can never be redeemed.

The Lady Elizabeth

Sometimes I long to forget… It is painful to be conscious of two worlds.

Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language

Why do beautiful women love ugly men?

The Secret History of Wonder Woman

[W]hen people are ashamed they hold aloof, above all from those nearest to them, and are unreserved with strangers

The Portable Chekhov

Modern architecture only becomes modern with its engagement with the media.

Privacy and Publicity: Modern Architecture as Mass Media

Solidaritas Islam hanya merupakan pengandaian sepintas lalu, yang berubah ubah dan tidak pasti sifatnya - Jaques Duchesne-Guillemin

Unity and Variety in Muslim Civilization

Islam adalah agama yang hidup, terus berkembang dan dapat memenuhi kebutuhan rohani dan intelektual jutaan umat manusia.

Unity and Variety in Muslim Civilization

Pendekatan orang tentang agama yang dianutnya sudah semestinya berbeda dengan pendekatan orang yang berada di luar agama itu.

Unity and Variety in Muslim Civilization

My best friend in medical school was a magician. And we were shown an X-ray of a sword-swallower, and I tried it and failed. Then I got a sword-swallower as a patient, and he taught me.

Hans Rosling

Connie Heermann is a Freedom Writer teacher. I believe she represents the best of what dedicated teachers can be because she chose to serve her students, not her school board.

Richard LaGravenese

How much our society values its children can be measured by how well they are treated and protected.

Howard Markel

All my life, the library has always been one of my favorite places to go. (Larry Brown: A Writer's Life by Jean W. Cash)

Larry Brown