Quotes of: Theodore Keyword

Beautiful people are always with us, as evolutionary psychologists and a trip to the news-stand confirm.

Charles Jencks

The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black.

James Baldwin

We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of a wilderness into a land of splendid cities.

James Henry Breasted

Leaders are not pale reflectors of major social conflicts; they play up some, play down others, ignore still others.

James MacGregor Burns

Mr is a lively and talented man, and a thorough chemist...

Joseph Banks

I think I was identified as a failed president because I wasn't re-elected.

Jimmy Carter

Over one in five American children is living in poverty, and the number is rising.

Eric Alterman

I have no interest in sailing around the world. Not that there is any lack of requests for me to do so.

Edward Heath

People put limitations on their creativity, believing they have to rely on what they know and what they have done.

Bertrand Piccard

I feel horribly vindicated. Three thousand people died who didn't have to die.

Caleb Carr

By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.

Christopher Columbus

We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail.

Greil Marcus

My mind is in a state of constant rebellion. I believe that will always be so.

George Mallory

The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation.

Goldwin Smith

I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.

Garry Wills

This city has many public squares, in which are situated the markets and other places for buying and selling.

Hernan Cortes

A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.

John Lothrop Motley

The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times.

John Lothrop Motley

I don't think anyone is qualified to answer questions of eternal fate definitively, much less pinpoint it to a given day.

Jon Meacham

The American system of political spending is so unregulated that it might make Adam Smith rethink free markets.

Jon Meacham

The lesson of the Clinton years and of Obama's win of both the nomination and the general election in 2008 is that Democrats need to be as tough as JFK was.

Jon Meacham