Laurendeau College Quotes & Sayings

But I'm really trying to run this company like it is going to be here a hundred years from now. That's what's important. — Yvon Chouinard

One miner at Robinson Deep Mines, Daniel, [...] claims that as an induna or "boss boy", he had sought the company of a "girlfriend", that is, a young Basotho man, because he was not authorized to go in town to "see women". However, when he got special permission to leave the mining complex, he recalls with barely suppressed emotion that, during such leaves, he would soon long to be reunited with his "boy-wife". He and his peers claimed that "[they] loved them better" and preferred them over the experienced (female) city streetwalkers. — Chantal Zabus

Not-learning is the conscious decision not to learn something that you could learn. — Herbert Kohl

I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character. — Salman Rushdie

If capitalist realism is so seamless, and if current forms of resistance are so hopeless and impotent, where can an effective challenge come from? A moral critique of capitalism, emphasizing the ways in which it leads to suffering, only reinforces capitalist realism. Poverty, famine and war can be presented as an inevitable part of reality, while the hope that these forms of suffering could be eliminated easily painted as naive utopianism. Capitalist realism can only be threatened if it is shown to be in some way inconsistent or untenable; if, that is to say, capitalism's ostensible 'realism' turns out to be nothing of the sort. — Mark Fisher

The division in our lives was curious. Downstairs there was pure convention; upstairs pure intellect. But there was no connection between them. — Virginia Woolf

But if the gospel teaches us anything, it's that disaster is where grace happens. — Jason Stellman

As with every phenomenon of the objective universe, the first step toward understanding work is to analyze it. — Peter Drucker

It's difficult to know which second among a lifetime of seconds is more special. Often when you realise how precious those seconds are, it's too late for them to be captured because the moment has passed. We realise too late. — Cecelia Ahern

I am very happy to know my mission. — Lailah Gifty Akita

God pours out love upon all with a lavish hand
but He reserves vengeance for His very own. — Mark Twain