Dave Schulz Quotes & Sayings

Almost all systems of economic thought are premised on the idea of continued economic growth, which would be fine and dandy if we lived on an infinite planet, but there's this small, niggling, inconvenient fact that the planet is, in fact, finite, and that, unlike economic theory, it is governed by physical and biological reality — George Monbiot

For the evaders, avoiders, dodgers, and side-steppers.

You probably have a good reason for hiding.

May you work through it and find your inner lion. — Jenn Bennett

Got those moods a swinging, tears a slinging, nothing fits me, when it hits me, ranting, raving, misbehaving, PMS blues. — Dolly Parton

He knew what his father thought: that immigration, so often presented as a heroic act, could just as easily be the opposite; that it was cowardice that led many to America; fear marked the journey, not bravery; a cockroachy desire to scuttle to where you never saw poverty, not really, never had to suffer a tug to your conscience; where you never heard the demands of servants, beggars, bankrupt relatives, and where your generosity would never be openly claimed; where by merely looking after your wife-child-dog-yard you could feel virtuous. Experience the relief of being an unknown transplant to the locals and hide the perspective granted by journey. Ohio was the first place he loved, for there at last he had been able to acquire poise
— Kiran Desai

Build a bridge over shame by teaching kids about sexual abuse. Give them a chance to run to us should they encounter it. Be their hero. — Carolyn Byers Ruch

I've always been so apathetic. I figured, OK, maybe the world is going to fall down around me. Now I want to make a better world ... that's motherhood. — Cass Elliot

Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia,
And therefore I forbid my tears. — William Shakespeare

Nature makes penicillin; I just found it. — Alexander Fleming

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The tongue of man is a twisty thing, there are plenty of words there of every kind. — Homer

The morbid states of health, the irritableness of disposition arising from unstrung nerves, the impatience, the crossness, the fault-finding of men, who, full of morbid influences, are unhappy themselves, and throw the cloud of their troubles like a dark shadow upon others, teach us what eminent duty there is in health. — Henry Ward Beecher

Bollocks to the rules! — William Golding

Yes! That's what all our talk about a decent world has been ... just so much bullshit."
"We did say it was still only a dream."
"And a bloody useless one at that. Life's a fuck-up and it's never going to change. — Athol Fugard