Madrugada Band Quotes & Sayings

I've always believed in expansionary monetary policy and if necessary fiscal policy when the economy is depressed. — Paul Krugman

Therefore, since we may say, after such long experience, that religion does not imply exact honesty, we are authorized by the same reasons to think that atheism does not exclude it. — Julien Offray De La Mettrie

Writers who pretend that everything they're doing is completely new are full of it. — Justin Cronin

If wishes were horses, paupers would ride. If the queen had balls, she'd be king. If I didn't have to WORK, I'd write stories all day. — Suki Michelle

The promise given was necessity of the past: the word borken is a necessity of the present -Niccolo Machiavelli — Michael Scott

I've come to a frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my personal approach that creates the climate. It's my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or dehumanized. — Haim G. Ginott

All this, sadly enough, is truer of the more educated, higher-income, professional families. It is here that the competition is the greatest, the expectations most elevated. If the boy would be happier as a telephone linesman or a forest ranger, he is in a hopeless bind. His goals have been set for him by his milieu, and he cannot be his own man; so he simply refuses to play the game. He does not try. — Sydney J. Harris

Equilibrium is the profoundest tendency of all human activity. — Jean Piaget

Nobody knows how many North Koreans have died or are dying in the famine - some estimates by foreign-aid groups run as high as three million in the period from 1995 to 1998 alone - but the rotund, jowly face of Kim Il Sung still beams down contentedly from every wall, and the 58-year-old son looks as chubby as ever, even as his slenderized subjects are mustered to applaud him. — Christopher Hitchens

If there is something occurring that is so bad that it could be considered a crime against humanity, it has to be transmitted with anguish, with pain, and create an impact in people - upset them, shake them up, wake them out of their everyday routine. — James Nachtwey

I have a way with words, & they have a way of lingering... — Dayelle Brown

I transmit but do not create. I place my trust in the teachings of antiquity. — Confucius

I have one anecdote about the FBI breaking into an embassy in Washington, and under Hoover, they had this sort of ruse whereby they didn't want to recommend a break-in that might be a big flap and cause all kinds of problems. — Ronald Kessler

When I die, poetry shall sit beside me! — Carl McKever

We are all descended from monsters. — Tess Gerritsen