Bronislaw Malinowski Quotes

W.H.R. Rivers is the Rider Haggard of anthropology; I shall be the Conrad.

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• For me, books have been a life-long resource-to learning, laughter, solace, excitement, inspiration. At your library, the world awaits you, free for the asking.

  

  Lady Bird Johnson
  • Learning
  • Books
  • Library

• Torture is something that happens between two people, the torturer and the victim. The victim is made to taste death without actually dying. He is subjected to atrocious pain and begs his torturer to kill him. He's even ready to forgive the torturer as long as he kills him.

  

  Saadi Yacef
  • People
  • Long
  • Death

• A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Always
  • Person
  • Treads

• London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Women
  • Trust
  • Recognize

• Opportunity never sneaks up on those who straddle the fence of indecision.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Up
  • Opportunity
  • Fence

• [On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and ... it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • Practice
  • Alcohol

• The more one lives alone on the river or in the open country, the clearer it becomes that nothing is more beautiful or great than to perform the ordinary duties of one's daily life simply and naturally.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Life
  • Great
  • Country

• Let me not hurt, by any selfish deed Or thoughtless word, the heart of foe or friend; Nor would I pass, unseeing, worthy need, Or sin by silence when I should defend... "The world is better that I lived to-day."

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • World
  • Heart
  • Friend

• J-Hope always tries to cheer us up, and I'm so grateful. Actually, I like to call him a new leader for the group.

  

  Kim Nam-joon BTS
  • Up
  • Hope
  • Cheer

• One truth opened another. Ona still shaded everything we did. Ona's death was the last family affair. I'd seen Man suffer. I'd seen her break. Now more than anything. I wanted to see her happy.

  

  Fae Myenne Ng
  • Truth
  • Another
  • Opened

• All you really need to do is shift people just a tiny bit for change to happen. It doesn't have to be huge and humongous.

  

  Viola Davis
  • People
  • Needs
  • Bits

• How dangerous can false reasoning prove!

  

  Sophocles
  • Dangerous
  • Prove
  • False

• If you will make a deliberate decision to develop a positive attitude toward opportunities and obstacles, you are on your way toward having what is the most important quality in education: the power of positive thinking.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Decision
  • Positive
  • Attitude

• I thought I'd join the RAF and become a wing commander. I realised this wasn't possible, although I do have a pilot's licence.

  

  Mike Oldfield
  • Pilots
  • Realised
  • Commanders

• As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.

  

  Arthur Rimbaud
  • Rivers
  • Ferrymen

• When rowan leaves are dank and rusting And rowan berries red as blood, When in my palm the hangman's thrusting The final nail with bony thud, When, over the foul flooding river, Upon the wet grey height, I toss Before my land's grim looks, and shiver As I swing here upon the cross, Then, through the blood and weeping, stretches My dying sight to space remote; I see upon the river's reaches Christ sailing to me in a boat.

  

  Alexander Blok
  • Blood
  • Land
  • Rivers

• W.H.R. Rivers is the Rider Haggard of anthropology; I shall be the Conrad.

  

  Bronislaw Malinowski
  • Rivers
  • Anthropology
  • Conrad