Quotes of: Keller Keyword

Positive characterizations are complex characterizations. That's all we need to know. They shouldn't be saccharine. They shouldn't feel like medicine.

Ava DuVernay

Kant introduced the concept of the negative into philosophy. Would it not also be worthwhile to try to introduce the concept of the positive into philosophy?

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I am really, I think, truly an easygoing, positive, fun person.

Lisa Scottoline

While the wider global environment is worrying, we are seeing some positive results in our economic affairs.

Michael D. Higgins

For the liberal state to accommodate a diversity of beliefs while having few positive convictions is one of the more admirable achievements of civilization.

Terry Eagleton

For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.

Thomas Mann

The birth of science rang the death-knell of an arbitrary and constantly interposing Supreme Power.

Annie Besant

If a film project were available and the timing was right, I might be interested.

Yann Martel

I do a lot of stuff. I mean, you know, charity work.

Sylvia Browne

I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.

Susan B. Anthony

The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.

Virginia Woolf

Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.

The Commanding Self

Great science emerges out of great contradiction.

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.

Emerson's Essays

The classes were valuable, but the real education was the game.

Ender's Game

We're clear," she said. "You're kind of a psycho. I get that

Glass Houses

Have a smile for breakfast, you'll be shitting joy by lunch.

Best Served Cold

The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her "beauty.

The Beauty Myth

Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

How one hates to think of oneself as alone. How one avoids it. It seems to imply rejection or unpopularity.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday, let alone 10 years ago.

Andrew Sullivan