Batonnier Quotes & Sayings

What the working man sells is not directly his Labor, but his Laboring Power, the temporary disposal of which he makes over to the capitalist. This is so much the case that I do not know whether by the English Law, but certainly by some Continental Laws, the maximum time is fixed for which a man is allowed to sell his laboring power. If allowed to do so for any indefinite period whatever, slavery would be immediately restored. Such a sale, if it comprised his lifetime, for example, would make him at once the lifelong slave of his employer. — Karl Marx

I've never been one that thinks that the function of an instrument is to approach the purity of voice or the structure of a beautifully sung line. — Evan Parker

Worry is spiritual short sight. Its cure is intelligent faith. — Paul Brunton

People only allow themselves the luxury of being insane when they are in a position to do so. — Paulo Coelho

Environmental protection doesn't happen in a vacuum. You can't separate the impact on the environment from the impact on our families and communities. — Jim Clyburn

He'd told Jamie Fraser the truth - the whole bloody truth - and — Diana Gabaldon

But i am a prisoner of perception, a compulsory witness. — Saul Bellow

In the scale of the destinies, brawn will never weigh so mach as brain. — James Russell Lowell

Nothing (at least that can be done by humans) immortalizes anyone. The Fault in Our Stars will hopefully have a long and wonderful life, but it will eventually go out of print, and eventually the last person ever to read it will die, and then the characters will no longer live in any consciousness.Also, that is okay. That is good, actually. That is how it should be. One of the things the characters in this novel have to grapple with is the reality of temporaryness. What Gus in particular must reconcile himself to is that being temporary does not mean being unimportant or meaningless. — John Green

What Zidane can do with a football, Maradona could do with an orange. — Michel Patini

What went wrong is we had tremendous concentration in the sense we put a lot of our money to work against U.S. real estate. We got here by lending money, and putting money to work in the U.S. real estate market, in a size that was probably larger than what we ought to have done on a diversification basis. — Vikram Pandit

Oh the stellar sensation,
Oh the cosmic elevation;
Time is sober in death,
For the wine of love;
Is the blue life of the earth. — Stephan Attia

Princess, the whole idea of one grand gesture is bull shit. If
you're with someone who never shows you they care in the little
ways and then they do one huge drastic thing, that's not love,
that's desperation." -Connor Wright — Devon Herrera