La Vie De Marianne Quotes & Sayings

You're not always able to choose. — Anatoly Chubais

Most of Marx's predictions have failed to materialize, and his labor theory of value and other ideas have been proven wrong. Marx failed to recognize the incentive system built into the capitalist model - consumer choice and the profit motive of the entrepreneur. The irony is that capitalism, not socialism or Marxism, that has liberated the worker from the chains of poverty, monopoly, war, and oppression, and has better achieved Marx's vision of a millennium of hope, peace, abundance, leisure, and aesthetic expression for the 'full' human being. — Mark Skousen

You figured that the only way I'd be happy is if I did the things you thought would be best for me. — Jodi Picoult

What critics often ask for is the impossible, though this may be a salutary means of extending the borders of art. — Anthony Burgess

I have heard people say love is weak but they're wrong
love is strong. In nearly everyone it trumps all other things
patriotism and ambition, religion and upbringing. And of every kind of love
the epic and the small, the noble and the base
the one that a parent has for their child is the greatest of them all. — Terry Hayes

We've seen those results in generations of Muslim immigrants - farmers and factory workers, helping to lay the railroads and build our cities, the Muslim innovators who helped build some of our highest skyscrapers and who helped unlock the secrets of our universe. — Barack Obama

All the publicity, the attention, the interviews, the photographs, were too much for me (after throwing his second no-hitter in 1938). — Johnny Vander Meer

My lungs are thick with the smoke of your absence. — Raymond Carver

The way the [welfare] programs are organized, poor people are only paid to do things that are counter-productive - such as breaking up their families, such as not earning above a certain level of income. — Thomas Sowell

Delusion is not just fantasy but compulsion. — Sylvia Nasar

Geology has joined biology in lowering mankind's self-esteem. Geology suggests how mankind's existence is contingent upon the geological consent of the planet. — George Will

She should have known never to love anything so much she couldn't bear to lose it. That was life's lesson. — Michael Sledge

Fun is not an activity, it is a state of mind. — Bryant McGill