Mariannes Aptos Quotes & Sayings

Next time we will look at this from a much more basic point of view and one antedating all zoology, which, glimpsed only a little after my twentieth year, made write in those days that what is most valuable in man is his eternal and almost divine discontent, a discontent which is a kind of love without a beloved, and like an ache which we feel in members of our body that we do not have. Man is the only being that misses he has never had. And the whole of what we miss, without ever having had it, is never what we call happiness. From this one could start a meditation on happiness, an analysis of that strange condition which makes man the only being who is unhappy for the very reason that he needs to be happy. That is, because he needs to be what he is not. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

When you look back on music history, it falls into these neat periods, but of course, the period you yourself are living through seems totally scattered and chaotic. — Eric Whitacre

I believe that the most important mission of the state is to protect the individual and to make it possible for him to develop into a creative personality, — Walter Isaacson

The Arctic and the Antarctic are melting quickly. We may have waited too long to get started. But this is a day for optimism because the battle is fully joined, and the idea that big oil is unbeatable is no longer true. — Bill McKibben

Nobody is paying attention to the fact that first of all, a man has to build himself and become a personality — Sunday Adelaja

The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it. — Ernest Hemingway,

You do not need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary. — Franz Kafka

I want to make a poem of my life. — Yukio Mishima

In real markets, agents make bad choices. They are often ignorant, misinformed, and irrational. Yet, markets tend to punish agents for making bad choices, and they tend to learn from their mistakes. For instance, if you fail to pay your bills, your credit rating declines and you have a harder time getting loans. If you fail to do research and buy an unreliable car, you suffer from repair bills. In contrast, when people in government make bad choices, the political process almost never punishes them. Studies show that voters are terrible at retrospective voting - they do not know whom to blame for bad government - and so politicians are not punished for making bad choices. — Jason Brennan

Animal Farm has seen off all the opposition. It's as valid today as it was fifty years ago. — Ralph Steadman

There's nothing worse than a good video and good song, and you see a band and hate them because they can't perform. That's wack. — Chuck D

The central tenet of Christianity as it has come down to us is that we are to reach out when our instinct is to pull inward; to give when we want to take; to love when we are inclined to hate; to include when are tempted to exclude. — Jon Meacham

I knew a guy once. He did weight training at the Muscle Farm, years back. He said that the Dakota Indians, the young men climb up the mountain, then form death-defying human chains off the heads, just so that the guy at the end of the chain can piss on the president's nose." Wednesday guffawed. "Oh, fine! Very fine! Is any specific president the particular butt of their ire?" Shadow shrugged. "He never said. — Neil Gaiman

It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidden agendas of the message and the myths that surround it. — John Pilger