Quotes of: Theodore Keyword

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.

Robert Louis Stevenson

His body was tubby but his arms apparently couldn’t understand that, for they were long and scrawny. From his brow to an inch below his eyes, his nose turned up; from there on, down. His short upper lip slanted sharply toward his tonsils, which had...

The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon, Volume II: Microcosmic God

Once upon a time in the dead of winter in the Dakota Territory, Theodore Roosevelt took off in a makeshift boat down the Little Missouri River in pursuit of a couple of thieves who had stolen his prized rowboat. After several days on the river, he ca...

David McCullough

Grant was something rare in that or any war. He could learn from experience.

The Civil War, Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville

What i took away from witnessing the broken climbers in Moshi was this: *Everything is easy until it isn't.*

Destination Truth: Memoirs of a Monster Hunter

Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.

Dust Tracks on a Road

I was planning on starting a new file on my computer with the title "Phrases That Sound One Way to Witches but Mean Something Else to Vampires.

A Discovery of Witches

I never bought a man who wasn't for sale. -W.A. Clark, ascribed

Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune

In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.

Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love

The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.

Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love

The loneliness of command had made Eisenhower emotionally self-sufficient.

Eisenhower in War and Peace

Cultures reflect the interactions of mixed populations.

The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians

The way to a landowner's heart was to tax gently.

The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians

On a medical school professor noted for slowly, carefully interviewing the patient: "He taught the love of truth.

The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris

was a genius who almost single-handedly created the foundations for modern statistical science.

A History Of Mathematical Statistics From 1750 To 1930

Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude that's in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history.

August Wilson

We live in a country that used to have a can-do attitude, and now we have a 'what-can-you-do-for-me?' attitude, and what I try to do is find ways that we can develop common ground.

Benjamin Carson

My father instilled in me an attitude that you couldn't really enjoy yourself unless you had done something to deserve it. So, my childhood was spent working on farms or local shops or, when I got older, in banks.

Ben Elliot

Being made to feel like an irrelevant child was probably an asset. Benign negligence is not a bad parental attitude or at least a cross between a benevolent dictator and benign negligence - you should just let kids crack on with it.

Clare Balding

What irritates me is the bland way people go around saying, 'Oh, our attitude has changed. We don't dislike these people any more.' But by the strangest coincidence, they haven't taken away the injustice; the laws are still on the books.

Christopher Isherwood

Like our attitude to love, truth and goodness, we seem to be confident about knowing what beauty is - certain, even dogmatic - until we think hard about the idea, whereupon all confidence flies away.

Charles Jencks