Badaracco Quotes & Sayings

The parallel between these animals sick from surplus value and humans sick from industrial concentration is illuminating. ( ... ) Against the industrial organization of death, animals have no other recourse, no other possible defiance, except suicide. — Jean Baudrillard

I love New York. I can walk half a block and I'm at the grocery store. I don't have to drive anywhere. — Camren Bicondova

Don't judge. I'm not getting drunk. I'm coping. — A.S. King

Now they were probably telling one another: Yeah, I knew something wasn't right. Everyone's brilliant in retrospect. — Tess Gerritsen

Happiness, she would explain, was when a person felt good, light, creative, content, loving and loved, and free. An unhappy person felt as if there were barriers crushing her desires and the talents she had inside. A happy woman was one who could exercise all kinds of rights, from the right to move to the right to create, compete, and challenge, and at the same time could be loved for doing so. Part of happiness was to be loved by a man who enjoyed your strength and was proud of your talents. Happiness was also about the right to privacy, the right to retreat from the company of others and plunge into contemplative solitude. Or sit by yourself doing nothing for a whole day, and not give excuses or feel guilty about it either. Happiness was to be with loved ones, and yet still feel that you existed as a separate being, that ou were not just there to make them happy. Happiness was when there was a balance between what you gave and what you took. — Fatema Mernissi

Worrying too much about other people's ears and not my own, I lost my way. — Carly Simon

It is neither necessary nor desirable that national boundaries should mark sharp differences in standards of living, that membership of a national group should entitle to a share in a cake altogether different from that in which members of other groups share. — Friedrich August Von Hayek

Every heart has a layer of sadness, whether deeply buried or covering the surface for all to see. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Years wrinkle the skin. Giving up wrinkles the soul. — Douglas MacArthur

War isn't about dying for your country. It's about making the enemy die for his. Gen. George S. Patton — Lee Child

Everything I am inside is pink and blue. Pastels without, soft clouds above, blue sky everywhere with an occasional rain but from renewal, not anger. My mind has no boundaries. Its floor is poetry, the wallpaper music. The windows are always open to allow the humor to drift in and out. The furniture is made of air, I am forever floating. — Kimberly Jo Smith

Sometimes creativity just means the daily work of helping others to see a problem in a different way. — Joseph Badaracco

Hoarding knowledge ultimately erodes your power. If you know something important, the way to get power is by sharing it. — Joseph Badaracco

I keep going to a lot of places and ending up somewhere I've already been — Matthew Weiner

Except in the areas of civil rights and medical marijuana, the legacy of the sixties counterculture has been largely superficial. Still, though the light has dimmed and gone underground, something in me would like to think the sixties phenomenon was a dress rehearsal for a grander, wider leap in consciousness yet to come. — Tom Robbins

There wasn't room to swing a cat there. — Charles Dickens

Communication can't always follow the top-down model. With the fluidity of information in business today, leaders need to be masterful listeners; they need to be able to receive as well as send. — Joseph Badaracco

Television provokes strong opinions, and sometimes we try a bit too hard to appeal to everyone. — Jo Brand