Margriet Quotes & Sayings

In other words we humans seek to outwit and control each other not just because of some tangible goal in the outside world that we're trying to achieve, but because of a lift we get psychologically. This is the reason we see so many irrational conflicts in the world both at the individual level and the level of nations. — James Redfield

Because that is what such a city is, in the New World, a writer's heaven. — Derek Walcott

As persons, so Mournier maintained, we possess both a spiritual and temporal dimension; we exist in history, in relationship with others, but open to transcendence and ultimately to God. This concept of the person, he believed, was denied as much by an atheistic totalitarianism of the Left as by the bourgeois materialism of capitalist society. To the extent that Christianity had become infected by the bourgeois spirit, it had become a prop in what he called, 'the established disorder. — Robert Ellsberg

A job on a newspaper is a special thing. Every day you take something that you found out about, and you put it down and in a matter of hours it becomes a product. Not just a product like a can or something. It is a personal product that people, a lot of people, take the time to sit down and read. — Jimmy Breslin

A group photo of the top ten journalists in America on any given day would be a monument to human ugliness. — Hunter S. Thompson

The only thing that's worse than people who say "I am what I am" is people who say "I yam what I yam" while doing a Popeye imitation. — Ariel Leve

Saying "no" has more creative power than ideas, insights and talent combined ... — Kevin Ashton

The Dream smells like peppermint but tastes like strawberry shortcake. — Ta-Nehisi Coates