Hanscomb Yardsticks Quotes & Sayings

I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it. — Clifford Geertz

I bought salvation from a man on the street. He said, Go down to the beach and let the waves wash your feet. — Gabriel Rheaume

The idea that the State originated to serve any kind of social purpose is completely unhistorical. It originated in conquest and confiscation-th at is to say, in crime. It originated for the purpose of maintaining the division of society into an owning and exploiting class and a property-less dependent class - that is, for a criminal purpose. — Albert J. Nock

But when you started dating someone, you could never be sure what you were getting into. You had to give someone a chance to show you who he really was ... and believe him when he did. — Lisa Kleypas

There is no faith like the faith of a builder of homes in coastal Louisiana — Dave Eggers

My father was so much more than an accomplished businessman. — Gordon Getty

Advertising revenue available for all programmers, all broadcasters is not enough to create quality programming, and subscription revenues are very, very minimal which come to all programmers. — Subhash Chandra

Agile does not mean laissez-faire, flexibility and freedom are based on the well-defined principles. — Pearl Zhu

Think for a minute, darling: in fairy tales it's always the children who have the fine adventures. The mothers have to stay at home and wait for the children to fly in the window. — Audrey Niffenegger

I went to bed all happy, thinking maybe a boy liked me. It's stupid that that's all it takes sometimes to make you happy. — Meg Cabot

Yesterday a child came out to wonder
Caught a dragonfly inside a jar
Fearful when the sky was full of thunder
And tearful at the falling of a star — Joni Mitchell

The more he became truly wise, the more he distrusted everything he knew. — Voltaire

Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal. — Diana Vreeland

Was he at the movies to see a movie, she said, or maybe more narrowly, more essentially, simply to be at the movies? — Don DeLillo

It is easy to sympathize at a distance,' said an old gentleman with a beard. 'I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear. — E. M. Forster