Matthiasson Tendu Quotes & Sayings

I've always hated the danger part of climbing, and it's great to come down again because it's safe. — Edmund Hillary

To be in anger is impiety, but who is man that is not angry? — William Shakespeare

Before, if I thought Christmas, I would have remembered my past on Earth and would have succumbed to the aching sadness for a life I can never have again.
Now, I can think the word and not feel anything but a dull ache, a phantom pain for a part of my life that's been amputated. [p.244] — Beth Revis

As you feel bad, and don't make any effort to change your thoughts and feel better, you are in effect saying, "Bring me more circumstances that will make me feel bad. Bring it on! — Rhonda Byrne

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power. The old proletariat sold its labour power in order to subsist; what little leisure time it had was passed pleasantly enough in conversations, arguments, drinking, making love, wandering, celebrating and rioting. The new proletarian sells his labour power in order to consume. When he's not flogging himself to death to get promoted in the labour hierarchy, he's being persuaded to buy himself objects to distinguish himself in the social hierarchy. The ideology of consumption becomes the consumption of ideology. — Raoul Vaneigem

I vow to serve, to pay my dues
And train myself for Legal use.
I vow to bear the Surplus shame
And repay Nature for the same
I vow to listen, not to speak;
To steel myself when I am weak.
I vow to work and most of all
To serve the State if it should call. — Gemma Malley

Committee, n.: A group of people that, when given the task of deciding whether to start array indices from either 0 or 1, compromises to declare that they are to start from 0.5. — Stan Kelly-Bootle

Careful what you wish for, lad, Rob thought. Blood's not so easy to put back in, once you let it flow. Your own no more than anybody else's. — Victor Milan

We know the value of a blessing when we don't have it. But we only know the value of knowledge when we have enough of it. — Raheel Farooq

Acting is like any other art form, in that you have the option to go very big or go very small. — Nicolas Cage

By the middle of Henry VIII's reign, the white meats - that is, dairy products - were considered common fare and people from all classes would eat meat whenever they could get it. — Clarissa Dickson Wright

The Irish Catholic side was married to the life of an actor and I found out acting could be a form of prayer. — Liam Neeson