Netting Fabric Quotes & Sayings

The State is not in itself an end, but is only a means towards human development. — Wilhelm Von Humboldt

In 1930, the death rate for Milwaukee's blacks was nearly 60 percent higher than the citywide rate, due in large part to poor housing conditions. — Matthew Desmond

Did men ever look in the mirror, I wondered, and find themselves wanting in deeply fundamental ways? When they opened a newspaper or watched a film, were they presented with nothing but exceptionally handsome young men, and did this make them feel intimidated, inferior, because they were not as young, not as handsome? Did they then read newspaper articles ridiculing those same handsome men if they gained weight or wore something unflattering? — Gail Honeyman

The revenge of an elder sister may be long in coming, but, like a South-Eastern express, it arrives in its own good time. — Hector Hugh Munro

Hunger is almost like something the West does. It's almost like the direct result of the way the West performs. — Bill Nighy

so fresh in a building with no windows. — Patrick Rothfuss

Love is always the first casualty of a religious war, the second is Truth and the third...Humanity. — Jason Versey

they seem unable to retain this very simple truth for long, although they have been told again and again, and this is because of another and most powerful feature of their thinking, which is that anything they are told is distorted to fit their own particular personal or group bias and then added, like another pebble to the pile of the half-truths they already cherish. — Doris Lessing

What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Every individual who makes us suffer can be attached by us to a divinity of which he or she is a mere fragmentary reflexion, the lowest step in the ascent that leads to it, a divinity or an Idea which, if we turn to contemplate it, immediately gives us joy instead of the pain which we were feeling before - indeed the whole art of living is to make use of the individuals through whom we suffer as a step enabling us to draw nearer to the divine form which they reflect and thus joyously to people our lives with divinities. — Marcel Proust

You may be guided by the unending effort of poets and artists, biologists and psychiatrists to describe that irreplaceable and still mysterious emotion so essential to the human condition, but all the search engines in the universe cannot compete with the first kiss. — Tom Brokaw

We do not attract what we want, but what we are. — James Lane Allen

Not in the constitution, but I would propose a law to the French parliament that provides for reducing the budget deficit year by year, until we have reached a balanced budget by 2017. — Francois Hollande

Alas few socialists are either benevolent enough to work hard at these occupations out of benevolence or self-interested enough to work hard at them for money. — John McCarthy