Immiseration Table Quotes & Sayings

Every person according to his light," said Ames "You must help the world express itself. Use will make your powers endure ... — Theodore Dreiser

As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can be tweaked and varied but will never go obsolete. Even when builders pound nails by the thousand with pneumatic nail guns, every household needs a hammer. Likewise, the bicycle is alive and well. It was invented in a world without automobiles, and for speed and range it was quickly surpassed by motorcycles and all kinds of powered scooters. But there is nothing quaint about bicycles. They outsell cars. — James Gleick

The question is whether we're ready to undertake responsibility for overcoming the crisis or will again sink in debates, mutual recriminations and half-steps — Yevgeny Primakov

Romance is a lie that gives people an excuse to act like fools and later blame it on the one whom they had bestowed their supposed love upon. — Quinn Loftis

Whatever we cannot understand easily we call God; this saves wear and tear on the brain tissues. — Edward Abbey

The Gospel is good news not good advice. Advice = what we should do. News = report of what was done for us. — Timothy Keller

Her dreams were a tangled mess of blood and shuddering trees — Rosamund Hodge