Merepotkan In English Quotes & Sayings

By the end of the 20th century, up to 90 percent of the sharks, tuna, swordfish, marlins, groupers, turtles, whales, and many other large creatures that prospered in the Gulf for millions of years had been depleted by overfishing. — Sylvia Earle

I was sort of a half-breed of colonization, understanding everyone because I belonged completely to no one. — Albert Memmi

In Plains, I saw Jimmy Carter as he really is - a nice, decent man ... in terms of compassionate contribution to society, he certainly has proven to be our best past president. — Helen Thomas

I believe that the emergence of postmodernism is closely related to the emergence of this new moment of late, consumer or multinational capitalism. I believe also that its formal features in many ways express the deeper logic of that particular social system. I will only be able, however, to show this for one major theme: namely the disappearance of a sense of history, the way in which our entire contemporary social system has little by little begun to lose its capacity to retain its own past, has begun to live in a perpetual present and in a perpetual change that obliterates traditions of the kind which all earlier social formations have had in one way or another to preserve. Think only of the media exhaustion of news: of how Nixon and, even more so, Kennedy are figures from a now distant past. One is tempted to say that the very function of the news media is to relegate such recent historical experiences as rapidly as possible into the past. — Fredric Jameson

You're not sorry to go, of course. With people like us our home is where we are not ... No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Wine is a successful effort to translate the perishable into the permanent. — John Arlott

You have achieved excellence as a leader when people will follow you anywhere if only out of curiosity. — Colin Powell

When it comes to selling stocks, it is plain that nobody can sell unless somebody wants those stocks.If you operate on a large scale you will have to bear that in mind all the time. — Edwin Lefevre