Debatable Lands Quotes & Sayings

When the institutions of money rule the world, it is perhaps inevitable that the interests of money will take precedence over the interests of people. What we are experiencing might best be described as a case of money colonizing life. To accept this absurd distortion of human institutions and purpose should be considered nothing less than an act of collective, suicidal insanity. — David Korten

If you miss the first buttonhole, you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I will not be just a tourist in a world of images. — Anais Nin

I don't go to church regularly. I wouldn't say I was religious, but more spiritual. — Julian Ovenden

I found the emotion that as an athlete you block out, and it really helped me to understand myself as a person. I'm a really emotional person and it helped make me a better person. — Carl Lewis

I think that you will see different types of content emerging, just the same as new media generates new content in the physical world. TV created new content, but it didn't mean that radio disappeared. — Donna Dubinsky

Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes? — Groucho Marx

I glance at the book he's holding. It is American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis. There is a deep, dark irony to this and I wonder if he realises it or not. I want to ask him why he's bought it but what if he's bought it as a text book? — Sarah Alderson

Just understanding life as it is, and living it with courage; not escaping from it, not hiding from it, facing it with courage, whatsoever it is, good or bad, divine or evil, heaven or hell. — Osho

Chatting on the phone, can't take back those hours ... — Kate Nash

The most important thing in anyone's life is to be giving something. The quality I can give is fun and joy and happiness. This is my gift. — Ginger Rogers

His [Andy warhol] films were way ahead of the times ... and I'm not suggesting this has all necessarily been a good thing for America, mind you. I kind of think we're all in a really big mess, kind of like the end days of the Roman Empire. — Bob Colacello