Drachmas Percy Quotes & Sayings

I'd been surprised by the depth of emotion that was invested in that curiously archaic phrase 'great power'. What would it mean, I'd asked myself, to the lives of working journalists, salaried technocrats and so on if India achieved 'great power status'? What were the images evoked by this tag?
Now, walking through this echoing old palace, looking at the pictures in the corridors, this aspiration took on, for the first time, the contours of an imagined reality. This is what the nuclearists wanted: to sign treaties, to be pictured with the world's powerful, to hang portraits on their walls, to become ancestors. On the bomb they had pinned their hopes of bringing it all back. — Amitav Ghosh

Did you do every single thing you could today, to be your best? — Apolo Ohno

For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression. — Vladimir Kramnik

What if you take a human mind, and upload it into one of these machines? — Gary Marcus

conscience as her lover. Her husband. — Diana Gabaldon

The logical man must either deny all miracles or none. — Charles Alexander Eastman

Boy," said the old man at last, "in five years, how would you like a job selling shoes in this emporium?"
"Gosh, thanks, Mr. Sanderson, but I don't know what I'm going to be yet."
"Anything you want to be son," said the old man, "you'll be. No one will ever stop you. — Ray Bradbury

If the economy is strained, then Social Security, like the rest of the government, will be, too. — Mark Dayton

Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son. — Evelyn Waugh

The United States is a violent military state. It's been involved in military action all over the place. — Noam Chomsky

Didn't the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona? — Beverly Cleary

Economics must not be relegated to classrooms and statistical offices and must not be left to esoteric circles. It is the philosophy of human life and action and concerns everybody and everything. It is the pith of civilization and of man's human existence. — Ludwig Von Mises