Appartenances Vaud Quotes & Sayings

Privatisation is presented as being the only alternative to an inefficient, corrupt state. In fact, it is not a choice at all ... it is a mutually profitable business contract between the private company (preferably foreign) and the ruling elite of the Third World — Arundhati Roy

Knowledge, to become Wisdom, needs Judgment. — Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel

We take a drink only for the sake of the benediction. — I.L. Peretz

The only way I was allowed to play was by convincing bands to let me do a few songs while they set up. That went on for years. — Beck

We're interested in things that have big teeth, and you can see the evolutionary value of that, and you can also see the practical consequences by watching 'Animal Planet.' You notice they make very few programs about gerbils. It's mostly about things that have big teeth. — Seth Shostak

There are scientists who will tell you that spirit, because it can't be measured, doesn't exist. Bollocks. It does exist — Sam Allardyce

No matter how bad your past is, you still don't want it erased. — Paul Aertker

They went around the room telling stories about how they'd gotten here. No two were exactly the same, but there was always a certain family resemblance. Somebody went looking for a lost ball in an alley, or a stray goat in a drainage ditch, or fallowed an inexplicable extra cable in the high school computer room which led to a server closet that had never been there before. — Lev Grossman

I hear what people say, I read all the reviews, all the blogs, and I am always curious to hear it, because you can't always listen to the good press, you have to hear the bad press, too. — Eli Roth

Our dreams of a pure virtue are dissolved in a situation in which it is possible to exercise the virtue of responsibility toward a community of nations only by courting the prospective guilt of the atomic bomb. — Reinhold Niebuhr

Never do business with a religious son-of-a-bitch. His word ain't worth a shit
not with the Good Lord telling him how to fuck you on the deal. — William S. Burroughs

Peace, that glorious moment in time when everyone stops and reloads. — Thomas Jefferson