Anhedonians Quotes & Sayings

If we functionally define a capitalist household as one that receives at least half of the annual income it spends on consumption in the form of return on invested capital, less than 1 percent of United States households are capitalists. — Louis O. Kelso

One of the striking features of the form of globalisation that has now been established is that it is based on the premise that goods and even capital should be free to roam but labour must remain imprisoned within the nation state. — Roberto Unger

When you see only problems, you're not seeing clearly. — Phil Knight

Joy being of God was a living thing, a fountain not a cistern, one of those divine things that are possessed only as they overflow and flow away, and not easily come by because it must break into human life through the hard crust of sin and contingency. Joy came now here, now there, was held and escaped. — Elizabeth Goudge

We Anhedonians have adapted to long periods between good news. Our national animal is the hope camel. We have no national bird. All the birds are dead. — Colson Whitehead

Oh, stow your whids, you dreary watering-pot, — Marion Chesney

Writing can be a lonely business. But gradually your characters, or the scenes and peopl from your past, begin to rise up around you, and you find yourself writing your way out of loneliness, writing into your own company. — Barbara Abercrombie

Baby bye Here's a fly, Let us watch him. you and I, How he crawls Up the walls Yet he never falls. — Theodore Tilton

I keep waiting to feel old, to feel like a grown-up, but I don't yet. Do you think that's the big secret adults keep from you? That you never feel like a grown-up? — Eleanor Brown

Powerlessness implies inactivity, like an appliance that is not plugged into its electrical current. Empowerment is about plugging into responsible choices and then acting upon them to your fullest capacity. — David Kipper

Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house. — Ramakrishna

To say, my fate is not tied to your fate, is like saying your end of the boat is sinking. — Hugh Downs

If you do what you've always done, your life will not get better. — Steve Harvey

Think, think, think. — A.A. Milne

Some of us claim that New York City is the capital of the country, indeed the capital of the world. Now, that may be a bit much for those who don't come from New York, but clearly we are an important city for reasons of our cultural advantages. — David Dinkins