Freakonomics Chapter 2 Quotes & Sayings

I don't take up the story and follow it as if it were a road, taking me somewhere ... I go into it, and
move back and forth
and settle here and there, and stay in it for a while. It is more
like a house.
Alice Munro on reading. — Alice Munro

If Corporations are people, I guarantee you that a government of those people, by those people, and for those people will continue to exist. — Stephen Colbert

Tall Nettles
Tall nettles cover up, as they have done
These many springs, the rusty harrow, the plough
Long worn out, and the roller made of stone :
Only the elm butt tops the nettles now.
This corner of the farmyard I like most:
As well as any bloom upon a flower
I like the dust on the nettles, never lost
Except to prove the sweetness of a shower. — Edward Thomas

A kind of golden hour one remembers for a life time ... Everything was touched with magic. — Margaret Bourke-White

The most insupportable of tyrannies is that of inferiors. — Napoleon Bonaparte

They'll reenter their lives' cages, where love's tiger sometimes rages, but the beast's too tame to bite. We'll — Wislawa Szymborska

no one is ever ready for anything — Alethea Kontis