Embalming Fluid Quotes & Sayings

First, with regard to managing relationships within an oikos, both parables point to exemplary managers as independent moral agents, enacting values that challenge conventional oikos relationships. The parable of the shrewd manager affirms the manager who acts as a countercultural moral agent by unilaterally redistributing his master's wealth, and the parable of the ten pounds affirms the manager who counters his master's wishes by refusing to exploitatively use money to make more money. — Bruno Dyck

Those who can, build. Those who can't, criticize. — Robert Moses

Paperwork is the embalming fluid of bureaucracy, maintaining an appearance of life where none exists. — Robert H. Meltzer

It's been a while since I've written a novel aimed at the adult market, but I never sit down and say to myself, 'Okay, now I'm going to write something for us old folks.' I get gripped by an idea, and I go where the idea takes me. — Rick Yancey

Hope is only the love of life. — Henri Frederic Amiel

A good entrepreneur is a good teacher. — Edward D. Hess

(What she perhaps didn't realize is that the embalming fluid pumped into the veins expands the body's erectile tissues, with the result that male anatomy lab cadavers may be markedly better endowed in death than they were in life.) — Mary Roach

I am convinced, both by faith and experience, that to maintain one's self on this earth is not a hardship but a passtime, if we live simply and wisely — Henry David Thoreau

Harrison was standing next to the dorm building, checking his Blackberry. She watched him from behind. How was she supposed to be okay just hating him and then loving him on alternate days. What if it never stopped? — Jennifer Close

I am an offspring of the dead. I am descended from the deceased. I am the progeny of phantoms. My ancestors are the illustrious multitudes of the defunct, grand and innumerable. My lineage is longer than time. My name is written in embalming fluid in the book of death. A noble race is mine. — Thomas Ligotti

Don't expect others to understand or approve of your life. Be willing to look like a fool. — Eric Ludy

Then it don't matter. I'll be all around in the dark - I'll be everywhere. Wherever you can look - wherever there's a fight, so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there. I'll be in the way guys yell when they're mad. I'll be in the way kids laugh when they're hungry and they know supper's ready, and when the people are eatin' the stuff they raise and livin' in the houses they build - I'll be there, too. - Tom Joad — John Steinbeck

I have one last request. Don't use embalming fluid on me; I want to be stuffed with crab meat. — Woody Allen

Presidential ambition is a disease that can only be cured by embalming fluid . — John McCain

YOU HAVE TO FIND THE RIGHT DISTANCE BETWEEN PEOPLE. TOO CLOSE, AND THEY OVERWHELM YOU, TOO FAR AND THEY ABANDON YOU. — Hanif Kureishi