Quotes of: Margaret-thatcher Keyword

I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

Florence Nightingale

She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.

Florence Nightingale

Anyhow, many people in the soft sciences are prone to be wrong because they’re crazy* * some are dumb, too, but that’s another story.

Gregory Cochran

I don't feel that an atmosphere of debate and total disagreement and argument is such a bad thing. It makes for a vital and alive field.

Clifford Geertz

I don't think things are moving toward an omega point; I think they're moving toward more diversity.

Clifford Geertz

I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now.

Clifford Geertz

I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.

Clifford Geertz

If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code.

Clifford Geertz

My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things.

Clifford Geertz

There is but little room for doubt that Egypt led the way in the creation of the earliest known group of civilizations which arose on both sides of the land bridge between Africa and Eurasia in the fourth millennium B.C.

James Henry Breasted

Not much has been written about the Nereids of modern Greece. Wherever there is a warm, healing stream they believe that it flows from the breasts of the Nereids.

James Theodore Bent

This conflict is one thing I've been waiting for. I'm well and strong and young - young enough to go to the front. If I can't be a soldier, I'll help soldiers.

Clara Barton

If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year.

Harriet Ann Jacobs

Among the southern tribes, on the contrary, hats were sometimes worn in the dance, although this was not considered in strict accordance with the doctrine.

James Mooney

It is assumed in many parts of the world that democracy is a group of people facing a certain problem, who come together to solve it in a way where everyone has an equal say.

David Graeber

My real father died when I was two years old, so I never knew him. He was a barber in Chicago.

Donald Johanson

You don't just magically flip some evolutionary switch somewhere and transmute a quadruped into an upright-walking bipedal human.

Donald Johanson

What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.

Jane Goodall

It was both fascinating and appalling to learn that chimpanzees were capable of hostile and territorial behavior that was not unlike certain forms of primitive human warfare.

Jane Goodall

Certainly, if you look at human behavior around the world, you have to admit that we can be very aggressive.

Jane Goodall

One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.

Jane Goodall