Mayabang Patama Quotes & Sayings

When historians look back on the past quarter century of international negotiations, two defining processes will stand out. There will be the climate process: struggling, sputtering, failing utterly to achieve its goals. And there will be the corporate globalization process, zooming from victory to victory: from that first free trade deal to the creation of the World Trade Organization to the mass privatization of the former Soviet economies to the transformation of large parts of Asia into sprawling free-trade zones to the "structural adjusting" of Africa. — Naomi Klein

The writing I love has something memorable in it - an image, a smell. It's the connection between the moment and the whole concept, weaving the micro together with the macro so that it has a hold on people - that's writing. — Atul Gawande

Biggest obstacle to learning is thinking you already know. — Mike Erre

I don't even like clowns. Clowns are not normal people. — Barbara Park

Why do you like me more when I was prouder and wilder, more full of words, yet emptier? — Friedrich Holderlin

Emma followed his gaze to the brightly painted stand where people competed to see who could toss a plastic ring and land it around the neck of one of a dozen lined-up bottles. She tried not to feel superior that this was apparently something mundanes found difficult. — Cassandra Clare

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us. — Kafka, Franz