Marxists Archive Quotes & Sayings

Don't get mad except on purpose. — Morton Blackwell

I write what I don't know. It's way more interesting. — Patrick Rothfuss

Stunner! Stunner! He got all of it by God! — Jim Ross

Rare luck. Perhaps Shadikshirram couldn't convince the Banyas to follow us. — Joe Abercrombie

What a sour little doodad the telephone is, and what little good news we get from it! — Stephen King

I got a few marriage proposals in my 20s. I just wasn't ready. I just knew if I committed, I would've wound up doing something wrong, messing it up. I still felt like I had some living to do. — Queen Latifah

Just as I have my own role to play, so does time. And time does its job much more faithfully, much more accurately, than I ever do. Ever since time began (when was that, I wonder?), it's been moving ever forward without a moment's rest. And one of the privileges given to those who've avoided dying young is the blessed right to grow old. The honour of physical decline is waiting, and you have to get used to that reality. — Haruki Murakami

Tim Thornton's portrait of a pop culture obsession is so convincing that one can't help wishing that his fictional alt rock band actually existed, or suspecting that they did. The Alternative Hero is a weirdly compelling portrait of fanatic fandom which reads like High Fidelity at high volume. — Jay McInerney

Cameron," Abby said in a whisper. "There are deer in the yard!" "Really?" he asked. "Why are you whispering? Can they hear you?" "I don't want to scare them off. Oh, I wish you were here. There's a baby. And a couple of deer look ready to pop. Not as ready as I look, but wild animals probably don't get this big." He laughed into the phone. "I told you, you're perfect." "If you'd been home another half hour, you'd have seen them. Cameron, there are six of them." "Any bucks?" "Just the mamas. And one baby." "That's a fawn," he said. "It looks like it's barely born. He's wobbling on his legs. Oh, I wish you could see him." He — Robyn Carr

The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered. — Logan Pearsall Smith

We can't expect Wall Street to police itself - that's why we have a federal government. — Martin O'Malley

In a similar way, The Art of War pinpoints anger and greed as fundamental causes of defeat. — Sun Tzu

As if they were supposed to have made a direct hit, to have a long, full, crazy, wild, passion-filled, child-strewn life together, but somehow they'd come at each other from the wrong angle, and missed what could have/would have/should have been. — Karen Marie Moning

If socialists understood economics they wouldn't be socialists. — Friedrich Hayek

To visualize an image (in whole or in part) is to see clearly in the mind prior to exposure, a continuous projection from composing the image through the final print. — Ansel Adams