Quotes of: Spencer Keyword

It is like we are obliged to assume that the government is only doing what it says it is doing.

James Bovard

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

Ashley Montagu

I think the problem with the word 'happiness' is that it sounds fluffy. It sounds like something trivial that we shouldn't be concerned with.

Daniel Goldstein

But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.

Talcott Parsons

The preparatory education of candidates for knighthood was long and arduous.

Thomas Bulfinch

Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.

Alan Dundes

I've become increasingly fascinated with social media to improve on traditional ways of preparing for and predicting the future.

Noreena Hertz

Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.

Thomas Bulfinch

Everything that is really Mexican is either Aztec or Spanish.

Edward Burnett Tylor

Most anthropologists are doing straightforward ethnography, and should.

Clifford Geertz

As long as there are Japanese tourists, there will be a market for the Old South.

John Shelton Reed

I was very intellectually oriented, very early on.

Donald Johanson

Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.

Margaret Mead

I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.

Elizabeth Edwards

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.

Niels Bohr

I have no evidence of any relationship between IRS and NSA.

Barton Gellman

It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.

Laurence J. Peter

Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.

Rollo May

The pervasiveness of guns in our society is destroying America.

Alan Dershowitz

Kids coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan deserve to come back to 21st century medical care.

Anthony Principi

The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.

Ashley Montagu