Haltiwanger Columbia Quotes & Sayings

We believe the explanation we hear last. It's one of the ways in which narrative influences our perception of truth. We crave finality, and end to interpretation, not seeing that this too, the tying up of all loose ends in the last chapter, is only a storytelling ruse. The device runs contrary to experience, wouldn't you say? Time never simplifies - it unravels and complicates. Guilty parties show up everywhere. The plot does nothing but thicken. — Michelle De Kretser

She ate the stars and swallowed the earth,
She is the girl with all the power. — Zoraida Cordova

Markets themselves are looking for stability, and I think we have underestimated the capacity of Europe ... to actually create a more stable framework for the whole issue of debt management, bonds, and so on. — George Papandreou

When economic conditions are difficult, people tend to be less generous and protect themselves; the question of solidarity doesn't mean much to them at that time. — Kofi Annan

It also didn't take me long to decide that Tri-Cities wasn't for me, and that I wasn't going to go there to play basketball. — Bob Cousy

I understood very well just then, why it is that men measure time. They wish to fix a moment, in the vain hope that doing so will keep it from departing. — Diana Gabaldon

The American Revolution was the grand operation, which seemed to be assigned by the Deity to the men of this age in our country, over and above the common duties of life — Patrick Henry

A servant of God has but one Master. It ill becomes the servant to seek to be rich, and great, and honored in that world where his Lord was poor, and mean, and despised. — George Muller

End-stage addiction is mostly about waiting for the police, or someone, to come and bury you in your shame. — David Carr

Morality did not keep well; it required stable conditions; it was costly; it was subject to variations, and the market for it was uncertain. — Mary McCarthy

If you're standing in the manure pile, it's somebody's job to mention the stink. — Barbara Kingsolver