Quotes of: Jane-austen Keyword

Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.

Edmund Leach

Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.

Margaret Mead

But, as we have before been led to remark, most of Mr. Darwin's statements elude, by their vagueness and incompleteness, the test of Natural History facts.

Richard Owen

Under no stretch of imagination can war be regarded as an ethical process; yet war, force, terror, and propaganda were the evolutionary means employed to weld the German people into a tribal whole.

Arthur Keith

Reality is observer-determined - it's a spatio-temporal process, which fortunately means that things must change.

Robert Lanza

It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.

Wangari Maathai

Magazines that depend on photography, and design, and long reads, and quality stuff, are going to do just fine despite the Internet and cable news.

Jann Wenner

The groundhogs are pretty good at eluding. If somebody is trying to come after a ground hog, they go and they burrow.

Jack Hanna

Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes.

Ulrich Beck

I really do think that any deep crisis is an opportunity to make your life extraordinary in some way.

Martha Beck

Creating ways to be happy is your life's work, a challenge that won't end until you die.

Martha Beck

I like to have met someone in real life before being their Facebook friend.

Nicholas A. Christakis

Modern science cannot explain why the laws of physics are exactly balanced for animal life to exist.

Robert Lanza

The only control we have over the duration of our life is to shorten it, and we do that all the time.

S. Jay Olshansky

Acting-wise, I haven't done a lot of comedy, so I would love to work with Jane Lynch. I think she's hilarious.

David Sutcliffe

At sunset we are rattling through the streets of the little town of Cordova.

Edward Burnett Tylor

I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere.

Clifford Geertz

What we had actually demonstrated was our cowardice, but there is fellowship in that too.

Clifford Geertz

Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun.

Clifford Geertz

Culture is the ability to describe Jane Russell without moving your hands

Bob Hope

All we have to do is to peel the shrines like an onion, and we will be with the king himself.

Howard Carter