Akarin Poster Quotes & Sayings

What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those? — Gilbert Highet

Really, the proper study of economics is fulfilment, not consumption ... It doesn't even matter if it's a green product or a green house ... It's still consumption. What matters in this world is the fulfilment of people's needs and the fulfilment of their aspirations. — Paul Hawken

I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, I wanna grow up and be a critic. — Richard Pryor

I wasn't into anything at school. I used to get really embarrassed. I used to get asked to do performing things, and I'd go to all the rehearsals, and then I'd pretend to be ill on the day I had to actually perform. I was very unhappy at school. — Lily Allen

What is a country? A country is a piece of land surrounded on all sides by boundaries, usually unnatural. Englishmen are dying for England, Americans are dying for America, Germans are dying for Germany, Russians are dying for Russia. There are now fifty or sixty countries fighting in this war. Surely so many countries can't all be worth dying for. — Joseph Heller

The highest reach of a news-writer is an empty Reasoning on Policy, and vain Conjectures on the public Management. — Jean De La Bruyere

When you represent a club it's about values and qualities, not about passports. — Arsene Wenger

What am I in the eyes of most people - a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person - somebody who has no position in society and will never have; in short, the lowest of the low. All right, then - even if that were absolutely true, then I should one day like to show by my work what such an eccentric, such a nobody, has in his heart. That is my ambition, based less on resentment than on love in spite of everything, based more on a feeling of serenity than on passion. Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in the poorest cottages, in the dirtiest corners. And my mind is driven towards these things with an irresistible momentum. — Vincent Van Gogh

I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them. — Ezra Pound

I don't believe in the afterlife, so I do think when somebody passes, it's worthy of note. — Harvey Fierstein

Paper is patient; authors never are.) At — Nina George

There was a rumor that Jesse Jackson was going to go over there to talk with the Taliban, apparently they were having trouble rhyming the word Jihad. — Jay Leno

The more you start to love someone, the more you ache when they're gone, and maybe it's that middle ground that hurts the most, when you can see them and still not feel like you're near enough. — Robin Benway

Don't confine truth to fact. Imaginative truth is as powerful, and often enough, more so than fact. — Paul Harding