Iconolatry Quotes & Sayings

Her courage seemed to collapse around her ankles like an old pair of elastic undies — Julie Anne Grasso

When I am president of the United States of America, there will never be any cap-and-trade in the United States. — Marco Rubio

The faith of scientists in the power and truth of mathematics is so implicit that their work has gradually become less and less observation, and more and more calculation ... But the facts which are accepted by virtue of these tests are not actually observed at all. — Susanne Katherina Langer

About 30% of fresh food is thrown away in supermarkets every day, although they will deny it. British households are throwing an estimated 30% of their food away, too. — Arthur Potts Dawson

We typically misunderstand what's wrong about consumerism. It's not that it makes us love material things too much. To be a good consumer, you have to desire to get lots of things, but you must not love any of them too much once you have them. Consumerism needs children who do not stay attached to their toys for very long and learn to expect the next round of presents as soon as possible. When consumerism succeeds, our attachments are shallow, easily broken, so we can move on to the next thing we're supposed to get. Being a good consumer means desiring new things, not cherishing old ones. And the new things you're supposed to desire are not always material things. Spirituality is now a consumerist enterprise, too. — Phillip Cary

We often read with as much talent as we write. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance. — Barry Commoner

A lot of people watch 'Community,' but DVR viewings only count if you watch within a certain time. — Gillian Jacobs

The ethic of truth is the complete opposite of an 'ethics of communication'. It is an ethic of the Real The ethic of truth is absolutely opposed to opinion, and to ethics in general. — Alain Badiou

The first thing you'll have to do, is the last thing you wished. — Edward A. Murphy Jr.

I was fortunate enough to see and handle and take in everything I could while I was playing. — Shaquille O'Neal