Accedes Desjardins Quotes & Sayings

Canadians can get Parliament working again. Here's how to do that: elect more New Democrats. — Jack Layton

The intuitions developed over centuries will be true no longer. No longer will greed, scarcity, the quantification and commoditization of all things, the "time preference" for immediate consumption, the discounting of the future for the sake of the present, the fundamental opposition between financial interest and the common good, or the equation of security with accumulation be axiomatic. — Charles Eisenstein

My single greatest challenge is to remain centered and loving in an overwhelmingly nonvegan world. In today's world, cruelty and exploitation of other beings - human and non-human alike - are accepted, practiced, and profited from by most every institution of society - from commerce and science to education and entertainment. Unfortunately, the vast majority of Homo sapiens are either unaware of the cruelty or accept it as unavoidable and even normal. — Michael Klaper

I like to think I'm a bit smarter than I sometimes let on. — Jack Whitehall

I don't know anyone who hasn't woken up one morning, one day in their life and wish they were someone else, or wish they could do something or wish they were capable of something. — Dichen Lachman

Fate likes to tease paranoids.' — Mark Kurlansky

Why was it that nine men out of ten thought women were incapable of doing anything but boiling potatoes? she thought furiously, and felt a savage sympathy for members of the Women's Lib movement, which up until now she had always faintly despised. — Sue Peters

You deserve so much more than what you're allowing yourself to have. — Colleen Hoover

Evanescence fans aren't the popular kids in school. They aren't the cheerleaders. It's the art kids and the nerds and the kids who grow up to be the most interesting creative people. — Amy Lee

I believe the sin of covetise is that pang of resentment you may feel when even the people you love best have what you want and don't have. — Marilynne Robinson

Tis as easy as lying: govern these ventages with
your lingers and thumb, give it breath with your
mouth, and it will discourse most eloquent music.
Look you, these are the stops. — William Shakespeare