Maldistributed Quotes & Sayings

Even as children they had been good in fact, but also in order to be seen as good. There was something disturbingly like hypocrisy about it all ... — Marilynne Robinson

Whatever might happen in life, whether I liked it or didn't like it, I could know one thing for sure: it would change. There was absolute certainty in uncertainty, in some ways an enormous comfort. — Steph Davis

Socialists will often talk as if some form of superbly equalized destitution were preferable to "maldistributed" plenty. A national income that is rapidly growing in absolute terms for practically everyone will be deplored because it is making the rich richer. — Henry Hazlitt

We're going to fuck. Then I think we'll probably do it again. After that I'll buy you dinner, but only if you're nice. — Joanna Wylde

Harmony also is not a luxury, it is an evolutionary necessity, if we are to advance further. And harmony cannot be compromised for any book in the world, no matter how ancient, or who wrote it. — Abhijit Naskar

Elephant altruism on the Kenyan plains. With her tusks, Grace (right) lifted the fallen three-ton Eleanor to her feet, then tried to get her to walk by pushing her. But Eleanor fell again and eventually died, leaving Grace vocalizing with streaming temporal glands - a sign of deep distress. Being matriarchs of different herds, these two elephants were likely unrelated. — Frans De Waal

Hope and trust are beautiful things. One gives a person the will to live, the other makes it worth living. — Jacob Gralnick

Fair is whatever God wants to do. — Leif Enger

When you will, make a resolution, set your jaw, you are expressing an imaginative fear that you won't do the thing. If you knew you would do the thing, you would smile happily and set about it. And this fear (since the imagination is always creative) comes about presently and you slide down into the complete slump of several weeks or years - the very thing you dreaded and set your jaw against. — Brenda Ueland

Why be a dumb dud? Do your friends shun you? Do people cross the street when they see you approaching? Do they run up the steps of strange houses, pretend they live there and force their way into the hall while you are passing by? If this is the sort of person you are, you must avail yourself today of this new service. Otherwise, you might as well be dead. — Flann O'Brien

I am very rigorous with myself. — Brunello Cucinelli

Neither of them had learned, after two divorces, that people can't be applied to wounds like gauze. — Christie Yant

Success tempts many to their ruin. — Phaedrus