Homo Oeconomicus Quotes & Sayings

Everybody, even those that don't like Chinese food, knew that you had to eat the cookie for the fortune to come true. And so he did. — Justin Swapp

You come out; it is still dark. The door creaks, or perhaps you sneeze, or the snow crunches under your foot, and hares start up from the far cabbage patch and leap away, leaving the snow criss-crossed with tracks. In the distance dogs begin to howl and it takes a long time before the quieten down. The cocks have finished their crowing and have nothing left to say. Then dawn breaks. — Boris Pasternak

Bands should definitely pay some dues and go through it, go to small clubs, build a fan base, all that kind of stuff, because it's not real, otherwise. — Brian Bell

Washington's task was to transform the improbable into the inevitable. — Joseph J. Ellis

If all of this, all the life of a stream of water, can be nothing but a pile of atoms, how much more is possible? — Richard P. Feynman

There really still is a deep wound, you know, in the collective psyche of Pakistan. And the violence has left enormous human and emotional and psychic damage. That's not going to go away. But that said, I think I'm cautiously optimistic that we're looking at a better future. — Mohsin Hamid

It is truly bracing and instructive to contemplate the End Times - at least at safe remove, in the pages of fiction - especially as the world beyond our hearths churns and convulses unknowably, yet perhaps just short of ultimate disaster. — Paul Di Filippo

It turned out that, like Satan, cancer had many names. — Khaled Hosseini

Saying 'Love you' never creates a story, its the beginning of trouble. — Sumanta Goswami

If there's something you want to build, but the tech isn't there yet, just find the closest possible way to make it happen. — Dennis Crowley

Every single day was just a box on the calendar that I could put a red X through; each one brought me closer to Lucas and to liberty. — Claudia Gray

When you are in it up to your ears, keep your mouth shut. — Georges Duhamel

I do like Christmas. I do understand that there are people who hate it, and there are other religions that resent it. So, I speak to everybody - I try to speak to every kind of minority and majority that cannot escape the steamroller known as Christmas. — John Waters

If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service. — Ida B. Wells