Lior Ashkenazi Quotes & Sayings

Superstructure and the productive forces is admitted, is it still possible to maintain that production determines the superstructure, rather than the other way round? It is the old chicken-and-egg problem all over again. The productive forces determine the relations of production to which correspond the ideas of the society. These ideas lead to the further development of productive forces, which lead to new relations of production, to which correspond new ideas. In this cyclical movement it makes no more sense to say that productive forces play the determining role than to say that the egg ensures the continued existence of chickens rather than the other way round. — Anonymous

Helen if you continue to fondle the bastard right in front of me, I'll have to dislocate his other shoulder. — Lisa Kleypas

I think by paying attention to the feedback that you get on Yelp, you can very quickly integrate it into your business ... The really savvy folks out there, they don't necessarily take anything negative personally, but use it as constructive feedback and adjust their business. — Jeremy Stoppelman

There are people who are never content, never appeased, forever dissatisfied - who continually look to what escapes them, convincing themselves that if only they could attain that one desire outside of reach they would be happy. It seems almost pointless to give to these people because their eyes immediately shift from the gift to stare miserably at the portion held back. Their wants, demands, expectations, appetites are never satiated, thus they refuse to be happy. And you cannot make them so. — Richelle E. Goodrich

I think pirates, like astronauts, particularly for a boy, are always kind of worth thinking about. — Daniel Handler

There's nothing more important than our good health - that's our principal capital asset. — Arlen Specter

To know and yet [think] we do not know is the highest [attainment]; not to know [and yet think] we do know is a disease. — Erich Fromm

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride. They have yielded to the perennial temptation. — Walter Lippmann

It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband. — Jeanette Winterson

One positive command he gave us: You shall love and honor your emperor. In every congregation a prayer must be said for the czar's health, or the chief of police would close the synagogue. — Mary Antin

What I used to do with a passion, foolishly and vainly imagining I would change the world for the better, I no longer tolerate in myself or anyone else. But draw, always draw - and WRITE. — Ralph Steadman

The abandonment came, and now this shabby bacchanal. — Suzanne Finnamore