Marvin Humes Quotes & Sayings

You can't carry the world on yer shoulders, broad as they are. — Jana Oliver

Recent history takes a while to set. People really don't know what just happened. They only figure it out later. — Sheri S. Tepper

Unions can play a valuable role in large organisations where it is difficult to talk to a thousand people. They can negotiate annual pay awards with management, represent grievance cases, and explain and advise on complicated changes in employment or pension law. — Jim Ratcliffe

I don't know what kind of egomaniac is sitting at home thinking about the impact they have had on the culture. It's not something I actually think about until it comes up. — Oprah Winfrey

The higher processes are all processes of simplification. The novelist must learn to write, and then he must unlearn it; just as the modern painter learns to draw, and then learns when utterly to disregard his accomplishment, when to subordinate it to a higher and truer effect. — Willa Cather

Good, because did you see his ass in those jeans tonight? Seriously, I would gladly go to jail just to hump his leg. — Aly Martinez

The prerequisite for making love is to like someone enormously. — Helen Gurley Brown

When was the last time you wrote a thank you note? When was the last time you went beyond a mechanical "thank you" to express authentic gratitude? We can enrich the lives of others and ourselves by making it a habit to express genuine appreciation for what others have done for us. — Michael Josephson

Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help oneself. — Morarji Desai

25 i The fear of man lays a snare, but whoever trusts in the LORD is safe. — Anonymous

It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it. — David R. Brower

Large department stores, with their luxuriant abundance of canned goods, foods, and clothing, are like the primary landscape and the geometrical locus of affluence. Streets with overcrowded and glittering store windowsthe displays of delicacies, and all the scenes of alimentary and vestimentary festivity, stimulate a magical salivation. Accumulation is more than the sum of its products: the conspicuousness of surplus, the final and magical negation of scarcitymimic a new-found nature of prodigious fecundity. — Jean Baudrillard

The Greek debt issue, for example, is such a threat because if that country ever defaulted, it might cause some bank that's 'too big to fail' to actually fail. — Jerry A. Webman

I feel very settled. I'm not running in and out of clubs at 5 A.M. anymore. — Jamie Dornan

Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by the arts. — Eli Broad