Quotes of: Jane Keyword

Carolyn Burnham: Are you trying to look unattractive? Jane Burnham: Yes. Carolyn Burnham: Well, congratulations. You've succeeded admirably.

American Beauty

Thomas: Don't let's spoil everything, we've only just met. Jane: No, we haven't met. You've never seen me.

Blow-Up

Publicly traded United States companies report sales and profits to investors every quarter.

Alex Berenson

My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses.

Alan Dundes

In every man there is an instinctive and passionate reaction if his person or liberty is attacked.

Arthur Keith

The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem.

Arthur Keith

Universalism as an ideal is as old as nay, is probably much more ancient than the Christian ideal.

Arthur Keith

Christianity has not conquered nationalism; the opposite has been the case nationalism has made Christianity its footstool.

Arthur Keith

Tolerance is held to be a condition of mind which is encouraged by, and is necessary for, civilization.

Arthur Keith

Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.

Ashley Montagu

We're all looking for an authentic way to be engaged in the community, engaged in politics, engaged in national discussion - and so, we're clunky. We're all clunky. But it's better than not doing it.

Mona Simpson

This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world.

Richard Powers

In the final analysis, terror is also another proof of the fact that the superpower is not really a superpower. It was vulnerable.

Ulrich Beck

[Jane] Austen was not a novelist for nothing: she knew that our stories are what make us human, and that listening to someone else's stories -- entering into their feelings, validating their experiences -- is the highest way of acknowledging their hu...

William Deresiewicz

It is important to nurture any new ideas and initiatives which can make a difference for Africa.

Wangari Maathai

And so I'm saying that, yes, colonialism was terrible, and I describe it as a legacy of wars, but we ought to be moving away from that by now.

Wangari Maathai

Human rights are not things that are put on the table for people to enjoy. These are things you fight for and then you protect.

Wangari Maathai

A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's really attractive.

Bruce Jay Friedman

My narrators tend to be women with low self-esteem, so I can send them to charm school.

Elinor Lipman

I keep returning to the central question facing over-50 women as we move into our Second Adulthood. What are our goals for this stage in our lives?

Gail Sheehy

A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.

Hallie Ephron