Quotes of: Spencer Keyword

Tolerance is held to be a condition of mind which is encouraged by, and is necessary for, civilization.

Arthur Keith

Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.

Ashley Montagu

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

In many ways the rise of the state was the descent of the world from freedom to slavery

Cannibals and Kings: Origins of Cultures

El amor exige la ausencia

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

Not much could have distracted me from coffee, but hearing Julius Caesar quoted at Spencer’s certainly did.

The Golden Lily

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

My own special relationship with America began at an early age. My father, a fellow journalist, named me after Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Lionel Barber

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

Just as an individual's ability to delay gratification at a young age is a powerful predictor of future academic and professional achievement, discipline is also central to the long-run economic health of nations.

Peter Blair Henry

It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.

Thomas Sowell

Many of the received models of modern architecture and planning owe their ultimate origin to the building code and public health reform movements of the second half of the 19th century.

Kenneth Frampton

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

Fantastic,” I said without an ounce of enthusiasm. “I’m just one more embarrassing confession away from taking over the world.” --Spencer Nye

Suspense

One day at a time, sweet Jesus. Whoever wrote that one hadn’t a clue. A day is a fuckin’ eternity

Paula Spencer

No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.

Ruth Benedict

A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.

Ruth Benedict

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

If I am to be remembered for anything I have done in this profession, I would like it to be for the four films in which I directed Spencer Tracy.

Stanley Kramer

People pushing the idea that everyone can live to be 100 are perpetuating a myth that goes all the way back to the Bible.

S. Jay Olshansky