Quotes of: Max Keyword

All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting 'the rich' to pay 'their fair share' is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics.

Thomas Sowell

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

My recollection of the higher school certificate, which involved a practical exam in physics, was being confronted with an experiment involving a sort of barometer arrangement, wondering why I couldn't make it work.

Peter Higgs

I'm going to be frank, Max..." "Of course. All cards on the table." But he gave me a poker smile.

The Counterfeit Murder in the Museum of Man

El amor exige la ausencia

El Instante Eterno: El Retorno de Lo Tragico en las Sociedades Posmodernas

As a life coach, I love makeovers, from new clothes to surgery, pedicures to highlights. But redoing makes you feel better only if approached with the right attitude.

Martha Beck

To start your working life after you've graduated from school and university, it takes you a long time to get started in the real world. Today, kids are not out into the workforce until 27 or 30 years of age. By the time I was 30, I had six kids and ...

Lindsay Fox

The thing I love most about my job is watching people age backward, becoming more lively and energetic as they free themselves from situations that are toxic to their essential selves.

Martha Beck

Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.

Margaret Mead

In an age that is sometimes nowadays frightening or confusing, we feel reassured by the almost parental-like authority of experts who tell us so clearly what it is we can and cannot do.

Noreena Hertz

If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements in virtually every condition of frailty and disability and mortality that we see at later ages.

S. Jay Olshansky

My own will and desires were now very much broken, and my heart was with much earnestness turned to the Lord, to whom alone I looked for help in the dangers before me.

John Woolman

Liberal that I am, I support health-care reform on its merits alone. My liberal blood boils, for example, when I read that half of the personal bankruptcies in this country are brought on, in part, by medical expenses.

Thomas Frank

The (extremely lavish set) was created by a transparency, a fine gauze, finely painted. According to the theatre accounts, it cost 241 ducats, 91 ducats more than Rossini was paid for the music.

Rossini

the more aware they become,however vaugely,of ambitions & of threats which transcend their immediate locales, the more trapped they seem to feel.

The Sociological Imagination

P6-the sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within sociey.

The Sociological Imagination

When grace moves in... guilt moves out

Max on Life: Answers and Insights to Your Most Important Questions

Funny thing- Morgenstern's folk's were named Max and Valerie and his father was a doctor.

The Princess Bride

And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all.

Where the Wild Things Are

My brother Max made my desk. It's a masterpiece, like a piano. Everybody who comes in my office loves my desk.

Reem Acra

Saying that you are moral because you believe in a god is like saying you are an economist because you play monopoly.

Robert W. Cox