Descanted Movies Quotes & Sayings

If the central contest of the twentieth century has pitted capitalism against socialism, then F. A. Hayek has been its central figure. He helped us to understand why capitalism won by a knockout. It was Hayek who elaborated the basic argument demonstrating that central planning was nothing else but an impoverishing fantasy. — Kenneth Minogue

Back in 2008, unable to come to terms with its many creditors, Vallejo had declared bankruptcy. Eighty percent of the city's budget - and the lion's share of the claims that had thrown it into bankruptcy - were wrapped up in the pay and benefits of public safety workers. Relations between the police and the firefighters, on the one hand, and the citizens, on the other, were at historic lows. The public safety workers thought that the city was out to screw them on their contracts; the citizenry thought that the public safety workers were using fear as a tool to extort money from them. The local joke was that "P.D." stands for "Pay or Die." The city council meetings had become exercises in outrage: at one, a citizen arrived and tossed a severed pig's head onto the floor. — Michael Lewis

I don't know what else I would be if I wasn't me. I am not looking from the outside, looking back. I am who I am. — Cher

I am air and thought and can do nothing. — Madeline Miller

Evil must be confronted in its womb and, if it can't be done otherwise, then it has to be dealt with by the use of force. — Vaclav Havel

Until you can be happy, you can't facilitate happiness for anybody else. — Wendy Raquel Robinson

Probably the best nonsense poetry is produced gradually and accidentally, by communities rather than by individuals. — George Orwell

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In the end... we call the enemy friends... the fake people again friends... should I continue here with the words? — Deyth Banger

I often say never write about white people. Not many people realize what I mean by this. Its pretty simple. Some may think its unrealistic to have an ethnically diverse cast but its ten times more unrealistic to see a cast of only white people. Like I don't know where you've grown up but the world isn't that way, at least not if your reading this post in English. — Adam Snowflake

They hear it come out, but they don't know how it got there. They don't understand that's life's way of talking. You don't sing to feel better. You sing 'cause that's a way of understanding life. — Ma Rainey

Glory fills the world with virtue, and, like a beneficent sun, covers the whole earth with flowers and with fruits. — Luc De Clapiers

People with the most interests live, not only longest, but happiest. — George Matthew Allen

Wonder is involuntary praise. — Edward Young

'Romance' is based on my entire creative process. I fall in love with an idea, obsess over it, isolate myself with it, and when I eventually introduce it to my friends, they all tell me that it's stupid. — Chuck Palahniuk