Dulces Quotes & Sayings

Those seven years in the cloister were the key to my life. — Abbe Pierre

Lincoln again got his name prominently mentioned in the New York Tribune, though this time it was for allegedly pumping up his expense account. — Harold Holzer

Being pretty isn't everything but sometimes being ugly is. — Jennifer Brown

People seemed to believe that technology had stripped hurricanes of their power to kill. No hurricane expert endorsed this view. — Erik Larson

In this interconnected universe, every improvement we make in our private world improves the world at large for everyone. We all float on the collective level of consciousness of mankind, so that any increment we add comes back to us. We all add to our common buoyancy by our efforts to benefit life. It is a scientific fact that what is good for you is good for me. — David R. Hawkins

The air tasted just the same, smelled just the same. The wind making my hair feel sticky, the salty sea breeze, all of it felt just right. Like it had been waiting for me to get there. — Jenny Han

So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history. — Henry Louis Gates

Michael Jackson is an extremely productive ethnographer, a serious reader of phenomenological and existential philosophy, and a remarkable writer at a level that one rarely sees in anthropology. Lifeworlds, unsurprisingly, is no exception. The several essays included here fit into an impressive whole that set out a compelling case for a type of ethnography of which Jackson is one of the masters. The writing is strong and the critical reflections impressive. This book defines an approach to anthropology that is resonant enough to challenge the leading models of our time. — Arthur Kleinman

Si todos los rios son dulces
de donde saca sal el mar?
If all rivers are sweet
where does the sea get its salt? — Pablo Neruda

Beware the soft-spoken when secrets are kept, for they hear what the thunderers do not. — Michael Alan Peck