Opdat Erik Quotes & Sayings

The roles that men and women play are no longer the standard traditional roles of way back when but are those of two very individual people living their lives. I think it's been a hard transition in society - just take a look at the divorce rate - to figure out what that means now. How do you resolve that? — Lisa Edelstein

We only see God when we see people — Sunday Adelaja

Personal Responsibility of each citizen before the nation, is usually well defined in all developed nations. — Sunday Adelaja

The final neoliberal fallback is geoengineering, which derives from the core neoliberal doctrine that entrepreneurs, unleashed to exploit acts of creative destruction, will eventually innovate market solutions to address dire economic problems. This is the whiz-bang futuristic science fiction side of neoliberalism, which appeals to male adolescents and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs almost as much as do the novels of Ayn Rand. — Philip Mirowski

Celebration has many different outfits but she always wears the same beautiful dancing shoes. — Mary Anne Radmacher

What he had really wanted to do was to tear a hole in his world and escape. — Vladimir Nabokov

Remember: if you take bivouac equipment along, you will bivouac ... — Yvon Chouinard

Note that scholars are judged mostly on how many times their work is referenced in other people's work and thus cliques are formed of people who quote one another. It's an "I quote you, you quote me" type of business. — Nicholas Nassim Taleb

In the beginning, I found myself dealing with a show business dictated by male white supremacists and chauvinists. As a black female, I had to learn how to tap dance around the situation. I had to ... find a way to present my point of view without being pushy or aggressive. In the old days, the only women I saw in this business were in makeup, hairdressing, and wardrobe departments. Now I'm surrounded by women executives, writers, directors, producers, and even women stagehands. — Diahann Carroll

If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences - where things turn out better than you thought they would - ought to be in there somewhere, too. — George Saunders

Undecidability is a useful category even in dealing with restaurant menus. — Mason Cooley

And then alas! I let the matter reset, watching and waiting only, as we have too often done. — J.R.R. Tolkien

You gotta love the cops. They start the night ready to shoot someone's eyes off and at the same time ready to carry a child with a grandmother's tenderness. Ready to shatter and ready to soothe at the touch of a trigger, a good cop is an amazing animal. — Marc Parent

Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld