Fred Goodwin Quotes & Sayings

I wish I could think about nothing, but the books all the time. I have never had an alcoholic rampage because of thinking about books too much... — Books

We fear it, yet most of us fear more than anything that it may take someone other than ourselves. For the greatest fear of death is always that it will pass us by. And leave us there alone. People — Fredrik Backman

We have the real self and the false self, there's nothing wrong with them, and everyone has both of them. — Benjamin Clementine

People talk about "job creation," as if that had ever been the aim the industrial economy. The aim was to replace people with machines. — Wendell Berry

Song of the Builders On a summer morning I sat down on a hillside to think about God - a worthy pastime. Near me, I saw a single cricket; it was moving the grains of the hillside this way and that way. How great was its energy, how humble its effort. Let us hope it will always be like this, each of us going on in our inexplicable ways building the universe. — Mary Oliver

In sex, man is driven into the very abyss which he flees. He makes a voyage to non-being and back. — Camille Paglia

A man that should call everything by its right name would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision. — Henry A. Kissinger

Was Marxism just one more ideology, a form of false consciousness that led its supporters and the oppressed classes to believe they were fighting for their own ends when in reality they were benefiting the interests of a new governing class? ... — Leonardo Padura