Manchas Quotes & Sayings

The future of marketing is philanthropy, — Biz Stone

Communism, it's a reactive formation derived from capitalism. For this reason it's less flexible and has a lower survival potential. The days of laissez-faire capitalism are completely dead, and the assumptions of nineteenth-century Communism are equally dead, because they were based on laissez-faire capitalism. While there's hardly a trace of it left in capitalist countries, Communism is still reacting to something that's been dead for over a hundred years.
And present-day Communism clings to this outmoded concepts, refusing to acknowledge the contradictions and failures of the Marxist system. Communism doesn't have any capacity to change. Capitalism is flexible, and it's changing all the time, and it's changed immeasurably. Communism apparently are still asserting that they are not changing, they're following the same Marxist principles. We don't have any principles. It's an advantage. — William S. Burroughs

I don't believe in villains - just people who channel their energy in the wrong way. — Elizabeth McGovern

The combined outrage of the millions of creatures which have suffered at the hands of man may well combine to haunt us. We are all of the same family, though destiny has assigned us to different roles: in our relationship with animals, we should regard them as different, not inferior. — Dennis Bardens

I can't on my own change the regime in South Africa or teach the Palestinians to learn to live with the Israelies, but I can start with me. — River Phoenix

It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal. — Vin Diesel

Christ, I need you," he swears. "If you don't stop me now, I'm going to fuck you, darlin'."
He licks a line from my neck to my earlobe, taking it into his mouth and sucking, his tongue flickering.
"Jay," I moan his name, and an appreciative groan rumbles up out of his chest. "Yes. Please. — L. H. Cosway

Cough up a lung where I'm from marcy son, aint nothin nice — Jay-Z

Percy'd heard stories about amputees who had phantom pains where their missing legs
and arms used to be. That's how his mind
felt - like his missing memories were aching. — Rick Riordan

Limp along until your legs are spent,
and you fall flat and your energy is drained.
Then the grace of the Divine will lift you. — Rumi

I don't see the point of having 80 million people online if all they are doing in the end is talking to ghosts in the suburbs. — Umberto Eco

Of what use are words of wisdom to the man who is unwise?
Of what use is a lamp to a man who is blind?
Hear the essence of thousands of sacred books: to help others is virtue: to hurt others is sin.
A man rises or goes down by his own actions: like the builder of a wall, or the digger of a well.
The narrow-minded man thinks and says: 'This man is one of us; this one is not, he is a stranger. To the man of noble soul the whole of mankind is but one family.

- quoted in the introduction, ascribed to the Hitopadesa — Juan Mascaro

Has dropped into the river, said Hurry, after looking carefully along — James Fenimore Cooper

In the world of high finance the shilling of the idle rich man can buy more than that of the poor, industrious man. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking for. — Brian Selznick