Emelia Golfieri Quotes & Sayings

That is the great danger of meritocracy: the people who reach the top of the system are precisely the people who have most completely identified with the system and its demands, creating a vicious circle preventing any actual change. It is no accident that conservatives tend to employ the rhetoric of social mobility so readily, as social climbers generally do not ask questions about the ladder. — Adam Kotsko

Life goes on in the same manner,
evil wins and peace is slaughtered.
Change the channel, change the view,
tired of the same reruns on the evening news. — Susie Clevenger

The Middle East, that seductive region where [Herman] Melville had hoped to rekindle his inspiration and revive his diminishing career, had proved an egregious disappointment. "The whole thing is half melancholy, half farcical," he groaned, "like all the rest of the world. — Michael B. Oren

The only new ideas that are not subject to our skepticism or suspicion are our own. — Cullen Hightower

For more than half a century they belonged to one another. She detested the same characteristics in him that last day as she had the first time she saw him under that tree, and still adored all the others. — Fredrik Backman

You the devil in drag.
You can burn your cross,
Well, I'll burn your flag ... — Ice Cube

I'm not graceful either. I have no rhythm, I'm never on top. — Chelsea Handler

Things get complicated at times, so there are certainly moments when you wish your life were different. That's true for everybody, not just people in our profession. But there's nothing I feel like I gave up professionally. I'm absolutely doing what I enjoy. — Laura Linney

Dandelions, like all things in nature are beautiful when you take the time to pay attention to them. — June Stoyer