Busking Down The House Quotes & Sayings

It was not their irritating assumption of equality that annoyed Nicholai so much as their cultural confusions. The Americans seemed to confuse standard of living with quality of life, equal opportunity with institutionalized mediocrity, bravery with courage, machismo with manhood, liberty with freedom, wordiness with articulation, fun with pleasure - in short, all of the misconceptions common to those who assume that justice implies equality for all, rather than equality for equals. — Trevanian

Truth is neither ojectivity nor the balanced view; truth is a selfless subjectivity. — Knut Hamsun

In our society many of the old rituals have lost much of their power. New ones have not arisen. — R.D. Laing

I've solved a problem that was thought to be unsolvable. . . . And I learned that only a small part of it is talent. The rest is determination. . . . The will is everything. — Ethan Canin

Over $5.3 trillion of currencies are traded every day, yet nations like the Philippines, Peru, Poland or the UK hold less than $80bn in reserves to defend against speculators. Enough to last only a few days. — Patrick Dixon

A sure way to irritate people and to put evil thoughts into their heads is to keep them waiting a long time. This makes them immoral. — Friedrich Nietzsche