Kotwdq Quotes & Sayings

The American system is the most ingenious system of control in world history. With a country so rich in natural resources, talent, and labor power the system can afford to distribute just enough wealth to just enough people to limit discontent to a troublesome minority. It is a country so powerful, so big, so pleasing to so many of its citizens that it can afford to give freedom of dissent to the small number who are not pleased. There is no system of control with more openings, apertures, leeways, flexibilities, rewards for the chosen, winning tickets in lotteries. There is none that disperses its controls more complexly through the voting system, the work situation, the church, the family, the school, the mass media
none more successful in mollifying opposition with reforms, isolating people from one another, creating patriotic loyalty. — Howard Zinn

I sit in the dark and wait for a little flame to appear at the end of my pencil. — Billy Collins

If the stock goes down we want to buy more. — Walter Schloss

Strange that in the day of tumult, it should be something so innocuous as a dribble of water that prompts a person to tears. — Kate Morton

My dearest Miss Farthing, will you do me the unutterable honor of wearing this cheap bit of metal that will most likely turn your finger green, pretending to love and honor me as your husband for the purposes of subterfuge and stratagem? — Lisa Mantchev

The universe is dynamic. When we are creative, we are the most alive and in touch with it. — Brad Dourif

It occurs to me that our survival may depend upon our talking to one another. — Dan Simmons

I sit with my back against a wall, put on my headphones, listen to the music, and imagine galaxies and stars and the Universe above, and I imagine all the light from space flowing into my head and down into my body, going wherever it needs to go. — Kamal Ravikant

I love the friendly faces of old sorrows;
I have no secrets that they do not know. — Karle Wilson Baker

No emergency was ever dealt with effectively by democratic process. — Ian McEwan

Grown ups never understood anything by themselves. And it is rather tedious to have to explain things to them time and again — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

loud laughter, phones ringing and the smell — James Patterson

There are a great deal of a great many kinds of love. — Lytton Strachey