Hidden Legacy Quotes & Sayings

The Georgian had used more words in 5 minutes than Wyatt had spoken during 1872 and 1873 combined. — Mary Doria Russell

What's the single most important thing to learn from an economics course today? What I tried to leave my students with is the view that the invisible hand is more powerful than the [un]hidden hand. Things will happen in well-organized efforts without direction, controls, plans. That's the consensus among economists. That's the Hayek legacy. — Lawrence Summers

An eye for an eye, I tell myself. A beating for a beating. — Tarryn Fisher

I am thinking of the onion again ... Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples. — Erica Jong

I wanted to be part of changing the world. I don't want to just stand by and watch it be however it is. — Boots Riley

He hung up and glanced at me. "I'm sorry, I have to take care of business. It can't wait, but I'll keep it short."
"Not a problem. I'll busy myself with being seen and tossing my hair. Would you like me to twirl it on my finger while biting my lip?"
"Could you?"
"No, sorry." I grinned at him — Ilona Andrews

The arts often realize human truths well before other branches of human endeavor. — Chris Hedges

How do we get out of this circle?" I asked him.
"We kill him," he said.
"Good. Let's kill him and go home."
"I thought you'd never ask. — Ilona Andrews

It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead. — Thomas Jefferson

Did you see how she got all hot under the collar?" Grandma Frida said in a theatrical whisper behind me. She's not over him.

"I can hear you! — Ilona Andrews

So is it over is this really it You've given up so easily I thought you loved me more than this — Adele

I've always felt that feminism was just an excuse for ugly women to march. — Larry Flynt

Every day you amass knowledge in a frantic race against death that death must win. You want to find out everything in the time you have; yet in the end you wonder why you bothered, it'll all be lost. I keep trying to explain this to anyone who will listen. — Derek Raymond