Durneder Quotes & Sayings

In a crisis, the "why" is irrelevant. — Chris Hadfield

Bureaucracies public and private appear
for whatever historical reasons
to be organized in such a way as to guarantee that a significant proportion of actors will not be able to perform their tasks as expected. It's in this sense that I've said one can fairly say that bureaucracies are utopian forms of organization. After all, is this not what we always say of utopians: that they have a naive faith in the perfectibility of human nature and refuse to deal with humans as they actually are? Which is, are we not also told, what leads them to set impossible standards and then blame the individuals for not living up to them? — David Graeber

He mourns the dead who lives as they desire. — Edward Young

I'm not being like, 'Hey, everybody, I'm pregnant!' I'm not that girl. — Christina Aguilera

Approfondement is a French word that means 'playing easily in the deep.' — Tom Robbins

January 7 arrived and looked like January 7. The streets were full of gray, frozen people without money. — Maj Sjowall

We live in our own souls as in an unmapped region, a few acres of which we have cleared for our habitation; while of the nature of those nearest us we know but the boundaries that march with ours. — Edith Wharton

The aim of my teaching is enlightenment, awakening from the dream state of separateness into the reality of the One. In short, my teaching is focused on realizing what you are. — Adyashanti