Quotes of: Margaret Keyword

Studies indicate that most of young adults struggle to grasp even the most basic financial principles that will allow them to manage money and prepare for their future.

Ron Lewis

Congress should just do its job and pass a transportation-infrastructure bill - a regular bill that doesn't borrow money and mortgage my future.

Steve Stivers

We need to think more about the nature of rhetoric in anthropology. There isn't a body of knowledge and thought to fall back on in this regard.

Clifford Geertz

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.

Lewis H. Lapham

Within the narrow confines of Permanent Washington - the journalists, lobbyists, and congressional lifers who are the city's avatars of centrism and continuity - Ford is considered the beau ideal of American leadership.

Timothy Noah

I had to live and breathe Margaret Thatcher for a few months. I totally engulfed myself in her life. I read her autobiography and a biography, 'The Grocer's Daughter.'

Alexandra Roach

Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a fortune at hand, will fail to do.

Clara Barton

We could live at the present day without a Plato, but a double number of Newtons is required to discover the secrets of nature, and to bring life into harmony with the laws of nature.

Dmitri Mendeleev

The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. The universe is asymmetric.

Louis Pasteur

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Marie Curie

I think I learned about the relationship between books and life from Margaret Mitchell.

Pat Conroy

Let us all remember this: one cannot proclaim the Gospel of Jesus without the tangible witness of one's life.

Pope Francis

If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck's back.

Ellen Swallow Richards

A standard international language should not only be simple, regular, and logical, but also rich and creative.

Edward Sapir

National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.

Edward Sapir

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

Edward Burnett Tylor

I object to teaching of slogans intended to befog the mind, of whatever kind they may be.

Franz Boas

Gaseous nitrogen combines with gaseous hydrogen in simple quantitative proportions to produce gaseous ammonia.

Fritz Haber

It is a pity that instead of the Pilgrim Fathers landing on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock had not landed on the Pilgrim Fathers.

Chauncey Depew

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