Quotes of: Theodore Keyword

What is this slow blue dream of living, and this fevered death by dreaming?

Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

You are the hybrids of golden worlds and ages splendidly conceived.

Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.

Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

If asked which words one associated with the Sahara, only the most dedicated surrealist might be expected to offer "whale".

The Sahara: A Cultural History

The cure for a broken heart is simple, my lady. A hot bath and a good night's sleep.

Mary Queen of Scotland and The Isles

The most wicked criminals have God on their lips at all times, for God is the only one who can stomach them.

Mary Queen of Scotland and The Isles

Eu sempre disse a mim mesma que o amor que os outros têm pela gente cria mais deveres do que o amor que a gente tem pelos outros.

Minhas Queridas

Es la historia de las mariposas, Martín; las que no mueren, conservan para siempre las señales del fuego que les quemó las alas - Rafael san Luis

Martín Rivas

Darnley, who, like Banquo's ghost, seemed to play a much more effective part in Scottish politics once he was dead than when he was alive.

Mary Queen of Scots

El Sufismo es sistematizado sólo por períodos transitorios o limitados; él es principalmente instrumental, no para disfrute o exposición.

Neglected Aspects of Sufi Study

I waste so much time sleeping. And time is of all losses the most irrecuperable, for it can never be redeemed.

The Lady Elizabeth

Sometimes I long to forget… It is painful to be conscious of two worlds.

Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language

As my former Yale colleague Rogers Smith has put it: "Elegance is not worth that price.

The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past

Before it is science and career, before it is livelihood, before even it is family or love, freedom is sound sleep and safety to notice the play of morning sun.

The Making of the Atomic Bomb

My experiences thus far had me planning to throttle the first Tudor historian I met upon my return for gross dereliction of duty.

Shadow of Night

Why do beautiful women love ugly men?

The Secret History of Wonder Woman

Books are all very well in their way, and we love them at Sagamore Hill; but children are better than books.

Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography

There has never yet been a person in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography

He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.

Their Eyes Were Watching God

An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done 'heard' bout you just what they hope done happened.

Their Eyes Were Watching God

They bowed down to him rather, because he was all of these things, and then again he was all of these things because the town bowed down.

Their Eyes Were Watching God