Machavariani Quotes & Sayings

Getting control of stuff makes people feel like they have more control over their lives - maybe irrationally, but it's one of these psychological truths. — Gretchen Rubin

There was something superficial in attributing anything so awful as the Great Depression to anything so insubstantial as speculation in common stocks. — John Kenneth Galbraith

Septimus: There is nothing more to be said about sexual congress.
Thomasina: Is it the same as love?
Septimus: Oh no, it is much nicer than that. — Tom Stoppard

'The A-Team' compared to making 'Narc' was a breeze. There's a whole other skill set and whole other kind of bone structure that goes into making a movie like 'Narc' versus 'The A-Team.' — Joe Carnahan

The hand which scoops up the water is the first vessel. The fingers of both hands intertwined are the first basket. [p. 217] — Elias Canetti

Each time he fought he fought to kill and the other bulls were not afraid of him because they came of good blood and were not afraid. — Ernest Hemingway,

Jackson's? He wasn't being deliberately evasive or trying to be secretive, it wasn't in his nature. — George Donald

Unlike, say, witch-burning, slavery, and apartheid, which were once taken for granted and are now officially outlawed, war is still with us. — Adam Hochschild

I'm a tidy sort of bloke. I don't like chaos. I kept records in the record rack, tea in the tea caddy, and pot in the pot box. — George Harrison

It's like, everything really is two ways, the way we all pretend it is and the way it really is — Jeff Lindsay

People feel sorry for you if you sit down on a bench in the evening. — Emmanuel Bove

Love is a verb and verbs show action — Mr. T

It's like kissing a Jack 'o' Lantern. What's with the grin? — Alice Clayton

She shared the curse of many artists - that praise beaded up and rolled off her while criticism stuck like glue, glue embedded with ground glass. — Carol Anshaw

Institutions such as schools, churches, governments and political organizations of every sort all tended to direct thought for ends other than truth, for the perpetuation of their own functions, and for the control of individuals in the service of these functions. — Robert M. Pirsig