Global Indices Live Quotes & Sayings

Punish me for my atrocious pride," she said to him, squeezing him in her arms as though to strangle him; "you are my master, I am your slave, I must beg pardon upon my knees for having sought to rebel." She slipped from his embrace to fall at his feet. "Yes, you are my master," she said again, intoxicated with love and joy; "reign over me for ever, punish your slave severely when she seeks to rebel. — Stendhal

Too often the desire for peace has been expressed by women while the stewardship of the mechanisms which are used to attempt to secure peace in the short and medium term are dominated by male decision-making structures and informal arrangements. This must change. — Jenny Shipley

For me, this is exactly what's so pernicious about the morality of debt: the way that financial imperatives constantly try to reduce us all, despite ourselves, to the equivalent of pillagers, eyeing the world simply for what can be turned into money
and then tell us that it's only those who are willing to see the world as pillagers who deserve access to the resources required to pursue anything in life other than money. — David Graeber

Let the "socialist" snivellers croak, let the bourgeoisie rage and fume, but only people who shut their eyes so as not to see, and stuff their ears so as not to hear, can fail to notice that all over the world the birth pangs of the old, capitalist society, which is pregnant with socialism, have begun. — Vladimir Lenin

You're very insistent, but I'm very busy. — Ralph Ellison

Most of us pretend, with greater or lesser success, that the minute we live in is something we can share. But the past for every one of us is a desert island. — Gregory David Roberts

I just wanted a change. My hair started hurting my back, so I went to my hairdresser and said 'Take it off.' And I'm delighted with the results. — Sarah Brightman

Blaming our past for not taking action to change our destiny for good is taken from a weak man's playbook... — Assegid Habtewold

Patience makes lighter / What sorrow may not heal. ("sed levius fit patientia quidquid corrigere est nefas") — Horace

The less we move, the less we are capable of moving. — Pete Egoscue