Kondratiev Cycles Quotes & Sayings

I hyperventilate opening a box of chocolates.
I'm the most nervous guy in the world. — Uncle Kracker

Work and learn in evil days, in insulted days, in days of debt and depression and calamity. Fight best in the shade of the cloud of arrows. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you have a single composer writing his work, it shouldn't be doled out in singles based on the length of a piece. — Gail Zappa

To be blunt, the belief in "authority" serves as a mental crutch for people seeking to escape the responsibility involved with being a thinking human being. It is an attempt to pass off the responsibility for decision-making to someone else: those claiming to have "authority. — Larken Rose

Cancer walked all over my father, in large part because he opened the door, turned on the porch light, and invited it in heartily
You old bastard! Come in and have a vodka tonic! — Dave Eggers

I think that there is always a part of utopia in any romantic relationship. — Pedro Almodovar

A city of Dreadful Nights:
The world rolls round forever like a mill, it grinds out life and death and good and ill. It has no purpose, heart, nor mind, nor will. — James Thompson

Don't get me wrong, it's a good thing to be remembered. But everyday their memories get fewer, less intense. Certain aspects of the memory will become dishevelled, twisted into a form unrecognisable. Until finally the person still at the centre of your world moves on and all you can do is watch — Stacey Field

The silence sings. It is musical. I remember a night when it was audible. I heard the unspeakable. — Henry David Thoreau

Let us not fool ourselves into thinking we went to the Moon because we are pioneers, or discoverers, or adventurers. We went to the Moon because it was the militaristically expedient thing to do. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Enough. Sudden enough. Sudden all far. No move and sudden all far. All least. Three pins. One pinhole. In dimmost dim. Vasts apart. At bounds of boundless void. Whence no farther. Best worse no farther. Nohow less. Nohow worse. Nohow naught. Nohow on. — Samuel Beckett

Trench fighting is the bloodiest, wildest, most brutal of all ... Of all the war's exciting moments none is so powerful as the meeting of two storm troop leaders between narrow trench walls. There's no mercy there, no going back, the blood speaks from a shrill cry of recognition that tears itself from one's breast like a nightmare. — Ernst Junger

Your job is to point that rifle into the other guy's face and shoot him dead. — Matthew Ridgway

Though I did not know the place, I set out for the land of my dreams. Having arrived at the land of my dreams, I found I did not know the place — Keiichi Sigsawa