Meccanica Solo Quotes & Sayings

I love getting paid to ride a horse. — Anson Mount

The answer came to me as I was boning a quail... — Graeme Simsion

Your heart, the compassionate part of you, knows that it's impossible to feel better at the expense of someone else. — Richard Carlson

It is not enough to forgive; one must forget. — Madame De Stael

When you let go and follow your fate instead of trying to twist your life around and master it, a man finds that happiness follows him. — Robin Hobb

Ari Shavit's My Promised Land is without question one of the most important books about Israel and Zionism that I have ever read ... This is the book that has the capacity to reinvent and reshape the long-overdue conversation about how Israel's complex past ought to shape its still-uncertain future. — Daniel Gordis

The social view of humanity, namely that of social ecology, focuses primarily on the historic emergence of hierarchy and the need to eliminate hierarchical relationships. It emphasizes the just demands of the oppressed in a society that wantonly exploits human beings, and it calls for their freedom. It explores the possibility or a new technology and a new sensibility, including more organic forms of reason, that will harmonize our relationship with nature instead of opposing society to the natural world. — Murray Bookchin

What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people who are more impoverished than ever before. — Angela Davis

Carrying lockpicks was one bad sign. On the other hand, Owl was taking long enough getting the lock open she almost counted as honest.
"I'm not going to offer to do that," he said. "It'd just annoy you."
"If you do not wish to annoy me, be silent. I'm trying to be quiet about this. — Joanna Bourne

The writing of some
men
is like a vast bridge
that carries you
over
the many things
that claw and tear.
The Wine of Forever — Charles Bukowski

The hardest thing about being productive is not the work, but the split second it takes to decide to take control. — David Allen

Forbes cost of living extremely well index (CLEWI) An amazing thing I came across while researching the question of just what it is that very very rich people do with their money. As Forbes says, the CLEWI is to the very rich what the CPI is to "ordinary people." There are forty items on it, and they are hilarious, though perhaps you shouldn't show them to your left-wing aunt if she's suffering from high blood pressure: Russian sable fur coats from Bloomingdale's, shirts from Turnbull and Asser, Gucci loafers, handmade John Lobb shoes, a year at Groton boarding school, a yacht, a horse, a pool, a Learjet, a Roller, a case of Dom Perignon, forty-five minutes at a psychiatrist's on the Upper East Side (!), an hour's estate planning with a lawyer, and, amusingly/annoyingly, a year at Harvard.36 In 2012, the CLEWI went up 2.6 percent but the CPI went up only 1.4 percent. — John Lanchester