537 quotes found
“I have already made up my mind, don't confuse me with facts.”
“Bravery is not an act of intelligence”
“Growing up is when you understand you get what you give, not what you're given.”
“It may take a lifetime for an individual to live, but it takes just under four seconds for the occupants of the Seville to live a collective life.”
“Dont worry, he said, that grandfatherly smile spreading across his face once more, Ive been fishing for over forty years. Youve got plenty of time to catch up, maybe even pass what Ive done. Youre ...”
“You may have misery, she continued, ignoring my plea, you may lose hope in the sorrow of an unplanned life but as long as you have faith and trust in adoration, in affection, in love, that sorrow w...”
“It isn't you,' he says, as though you're to be comforted by the irrelevant role you play in your own life.”
“What was home, really? Just a place to lay your head.No. It was so much more than that. It was a place where a person belonged. Where a fellow would be missed. It was a part of a man. Something tha...”
“Pen and paper have been my life, now they may herald my death. But I asked for these, the traditional tools of my trade, and to my surprise my request has been granted.”
“It turns out that home is not mostly a place. Home is someone putting her arms around you and saying the words your heart longs to hear: always and everywhere.”
“I was always a stranger at home, in all the places I ever lived.”
“And the child smiled on the Giant, and said to him, 'You let me play once in your garden, to-day you shall come with me to my garden, which is Paradise.”
“The current ruling ontology denies any possibility of a social causation of mental illness. The chemico-biologization of mental illness is of course strictly commensurate with its depoliticization....”
“The role of capitalist ideology is not to make an explicit case for something in the way that propaganda does, but to conceal the fact that the operations of capital do not depend on any sort of su...”
“The ideological blackmail that has been in place since the original Live Aid concerts in 1985 has insisted that caring individuals could end famine directly, without the need for any kind of politi...”
“The idealized market was supposed to deliver friction free exchanges, in which the desires of consumers would be met directly, without the need for intervention or mediation by regulatory agencies....”
“For though I was raised Protestant, my true religion is actually civility. Please note that I do not call my faith politeness. Thats part of it, yes, but I say civility because I believe that good ...”
“Face the complexity involved in making ethical choices.”
“Because we are a globally connected village, we need to remember that our choices are not isolated. They have a powerful ripple effect, and that ripple is global.”
“Leadership responsibility is multidimensional and cannot be described in one or two words. It is personal, interpersonal, environmental and societal.”
