Lifeworlds Quotes & Sayings

As a man, I've learned that there is nothing easier in married life than pleasing your wife with your cooking. — Robert Breault

And if not for the caterpillars and butterflies, who will I talk to? You'll be far away. And as for larger creatures, I'm not afraid. I have my thorns ... to protect me. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Here is a girl who is pretty in a quiet way. I bet she's had a very sad life. — Wally Lamb

And on that evening when we grow older still we'll speak about these two young men as though they were two strangers we met on the train and whom we admire and want to help along. And we'll want to call it envy, because to call it regret would break our hearts. — Andre Aciman

But Burnham also created an office culture that anticipated that of businesses that would not appear for another century. He installed a gym. During lunch hour employees played handball. Burnham gave fencing lessons. Root played impromptu recitals on a rented piano. "The office was full of a rush of work," Starrett said, "but the spirit of the place was delightfully free and easy and human in comparison with other offices I had worked in." Burnham — Erik Larson

No gunfire, famine, or flies. Just lots of toothpaste, gardening and people stuff. — Mark Z. Danielewski

The minutes ticked past. This is why peelers need a book. A wee paperback to stick in your pocket. — Adrian McKinty

According to the standard model billions of years ago some little quantum fluctuation, perhaps a slightly lower density of matter, maybe right where we're sitting right now, caused our galaxy to start collapsing around here. — Seth Lloyd

I do think people should be proud and supportive of their friends, in publishing and everywhere else. — Kristan Higgins

You're too young to be so old. — Leslea Tash

People are ultimately threatened by young people taking positions of power. — Lena Dunham

If only we could see in advance all the harm that can come from the good we think we are doing. — Luigi Pirandello

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

I don't have a day job, so I read any time of day. — Ned Beauman

We can either emphasize those aspects of our traditions, religious or secular, that speak of hatred, exclusion, and suspicion or work with those that stress the interdependence and equality of all human beings. The choice is yours. (22) — Karen Armstrong

I honor those who try to rid themselves of any lying, who empty the self and have only clear being there. — Rumi