Hanches En Quotes & Sayings

What I find most injurious to mankind in modern advertising is the constant appeal to material standards and values, the elevating of material things into an end in themselves, a virtue. — Ann Bridge

If we seek spiritual heroism ourselves, the old ego is just back in control under a new name. There would not really be any change at all, but only disguise, just bogus self-improvement on our own terms. — Richard Rohr

But ideal cities are very much the product of their own ages. Designed as complete urban statements, they bear the unmistakable imprint of their own culture and world view in every street and building. And yet to be successful a city has to be open to continuous development, free to evolve and grow with the demands of new times. Like science fiction accounts of the future, ideal cities quickly become outmoded. — P.D. Smith

Zane," Annie said with a hand on his shoulder. "Go find a state that allows it, and marry that man. — Abigail Roux

All index-number systems, so far as they are intended to have a greater significance for monetary theory than that of mere playing with figures, are based upon the idea of measuring the utility of a certain quantity of money. The object is to determine whether a gramme of gold is more or less useful to-day than it was at a certain time in the past. As far as objective use-value is concerned, such an investigation may perhaps yield results. We may assume the fiction, if we like, that, say, a loaf of bread is always of the same utility in the objective sense, always comprises the same food value. It is not necessary for us to enter at all into the question of whether this is permissible or not. — Ludwig Von Mises

Faith consists in believing not what seems true, but what seems false to our understanding. — Voltaire

[A]lways get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off more than a big slab of prose at the start.
(Interview, The Paris Review, Issue 64, Winter 1975) — P.G. Wodehouse

I am a man ruled by music- I live, die, fight and survive for it. — Corey Taylor

Taking initiative pays off. It is hard to visualize someone as a leader if she is always waiting to be told what to do. — Sheryl Sandberg

I'm as thick as a plank. — Princess Diana

I have the power to handle whatever comes up. — Les Brown

You're worse than decent. You're virtuous. — Eugene O'Neill

Men and women in their mutual attraction are driven to the very emptiness they are trying to avoid. — Subhash Kak