Quotes of: Margaret Keyword

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

Clifford Geertz

It's nice to say let's be bipartisan. But we're a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.

Colin Powell

Life is not a miracle. It is a natural phenomenon, and can be expected to appear whenever there is a planet whose conditions duplicate those of the earth. [ .]

Harold Urey

Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it.

James Henry Breasted

To the present writer a careful study of the facts now available seems to leave no doubt that civilization was born at the southeast corner of the Mediterranean.

James Henry Breasted

It's proper and appropriate to remind the Chinese about what they get out of solid relations with the United States.

John Breaux

Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface.

James Bryant Conant

The information is in the people, not in your head.

Edward T. Hall

Just this week, Syria broke off all relations with the United States military and the CIA.

Ed Markey

I wonder if a soldier ever does mend a bullet hole in his coat?

Clara Barton

The long-term solution in preventing another famine in Somalia is to promote self-reliance.

Hawa Abdi

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

Howard Carter

I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.

Humphry Davy

When primitive law has once been embodied in a Code, there is an end to what may be called its spontaneous development.

Henry James Sumner Maine

I have had many opportunities to visit universities all over the world in the past 50 years.

John Pople

Well, I have the same vision I think that the Founding Fathers of this country had.

David Duke

The bottom line is this. When it comes to preventing violent extremism and terrorism in the United States, Muslim Americans are not part of the problem, you're part of the solution.

Denis McDonough

The magnitude of the atomic weight determines the character of the element, just as the magnitude of the molecule determines the character of a compound body.

Dmitri Mendeleev

I suspect any worries about genetic engineering may be unnecessary. Genetic mutations have always happened naturally, anyway.

James Lovelock

You never know with politicians what they are really saying. And I don't say that in a negative way-they have an appalling job.

James Lovelock

Men are rarely questioned on their spouses or their partners, and nor should they be. And the question to ask is why is this done to women?

Joan Kirner