Sociology Reinterpreted Quotes & Sayings

Good sociologists have always had an insatiable curiosity about about even the trivialities of human behaviour, and if this curiosity leads a sociologist to devote many years to the painstaking exploration of some small corner of the social world that may appear quite trivial to others, so be it: Why do more teenagers pick their noses in rural Minnesota than in rural Iowa? What are the patterns of church socials over a twenty-year period in small-town Saskatchewan? What is the correlation between religious affiliation and accident-proneness among elderly Hungarians? — Peter Berger

They succeed, because they think they can. — Virgil

What a fool she was ever to have imagined that there might be some place in the world where she could sink to the earth with the knowledge that there were people round her who understood, who perhaps even admired and loved her! She was fated to carry loneliness about with her as a leper carries his scabs. 'No one can do anything for me: no one can do anything against me. — Francois Mauriac

I had a very lovely childhood, and, being an only child, I'm very close to my mom and my dad. — Luke Evans

they've put a price on my head because, like all governments who buy brains, they like to limit what the brains are used for. — Marion Zimmer Bradley

When you have a writing partner and you're writing a comedy, your goal is to make each other laugh. — Lauren Miller

Could a love of that magnitude die? If it was true love, could it ever die? Was there such a thing as true love? — Mary Balogh

She opened the door very slowly and carefully, half hiding behind it, as if badly frightened of what might be waiting for her on the other side. And considering that it was me waiting, this showed rare common sense. — Jeff Lindsay

Be strong. Overflow with emotional and intellectual energy, and you will spread your intelligence, your love, your energy of action broadcast among others! This is what all moral teaching comes to. — Pyotr Kropotkin

Audiences aren't fools - their judgement really is important. And the true heroes of films are the investors. They take the risk, after all. — Stephen Frears