Chrematistic Quotes & Sayings

There is a very moving and ancient connection between cancer and depression. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

I was always very ... impatient about showing my paintings to people. — Julian Schnabel

Living your yoga is not just doing it, but being it. — Judith Hanson Lasater

I assured him I was naturally hard - very flinty, and that he would often find me so; and that, moreover, I was determined to show him divers rugged points in my character — Charlotte Bronte

Walls have tongues, and hedges ears. — Jonathan Swift

[On public events attended by royalty:] It was the usual 'zoo tea.' You know, we eat - the others watch. — Princess Margaret

In money-lenders' capital the form M-C-M is reduced to the two extremes without a mean, M-M , money exchanged for more money, a form that is incompatible with the nature of money, and therefore remains inexplicable from the standpoint of the circulation of commodities. Hence Aristotle: since chrematistic is a double science, one part belonging to commerce, the other to economic, the latter being necessary and praiseworthy, the former based on circulation and with justice disapproved (for it is not based on Nature, but on mutual cheating), therefore the usurer is most rightly hated, because money itself is the source of his gain, and is not used for the purposes for which it was invented. — Karl Marx

You need to remind people that you vote, you matter, and that they can't succeed without your help. — Richard Hanna

Fairyland is a very Scientifick place. We subscribe to all the best journals. — Catherynne M Valente

My literary career was a fluke. Utterly unexpected. — Robert Harris

Happy St George's Day. Now kiss my beggar arse, you Puritans! — Jez Butterworth

Love knits families together, friends, lovers, societies, nations and perhaps oneday a world. — Frederick Lenz

If we can accept whatever hand we've been dealt - no matter how unwelcome - the way to proceed eventually becomes clear. — Phil Jackson

Our bodies know they belong; it is our minds that make our lives so homeless. — John O'Donohue

Don't push it." Cormac said as he looked back to Burrom. "You'll go under again one day, and I'll find out where you're buried and plant a goddamn park bench right over your ass."
"You wouldn't!"
"With a colorful flower box full of daises right beside it. — Donna Augustine

There was a crash like the falling parts of a dream fashioned out of warped glass, mirrors, and crystal prisms. — Ray Bradbury