Quotes of: Theodore-roosevelt Keyword

Ser un Sufi es desligarse de ideas fijas y preconcebidas, y no intentar eludir el propio destino. Abu-Said, hijo de Abi-Khair

Idries Shah

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

No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read." ( , NEH Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities 2003)

David McCullough

Even Silicon Valley investors have put well over a $1 billion in new energy technologies.

Daniel Yergin

Clearly, the Chinese need the resources, but I don't think they want to clash with the industrial world which happens to be the market for their goods.

Daniel Yergin

It's sometimes comical to hear the younger generation ask their peers to repeat themselves.

Billy Graham

When I was a child, I saw my father diving to the deepest point in the ocean with the U.S. Navy.

Bertrand Piccard

I, like most of my friends, couldn't believe I bought a mountain called Misery Mountain, because it was so appropriate.

Caleb Carr

It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths.

Greil Marcus

It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born to, and then to learn something of the value of those limits.

Greil Marcus

I heard Thackeray thank Heaven for the purity of Dickens. I thanked Heaven for the purity of a greater than Dickens - Thackeray himself.

Goldwin Smith

The natural barriers between England and Scotland were not sufficient to prevent the extension of the Saxon settlements and kingdoms across the border.

Goldwin Smith

We must also be permitted to bear in mind that evolution, though it may explain everything else, cannot explain itself.

Goldwin Smith

Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.

Harold Evans

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

The way to put oneself in a position to take the harder, more honorable political path is to argue for one's virtues in a vigorous way.

Jon Meacham

To lovers of adventure and novelty, Africa displays a most ample field.

James Rennell

Ofili is still a champion. It would be a huge mistake to think otherwise.

Jerry Saltz

People who are making it to 100 live in environments where they are regularly nudged into physical activity.

Dan Buettner

If you think about it, the historian's task is like that of the detective.

David Herbert Donald