Passada 2020 Quotes & Sayings

Why is it men think beating on each other fixes anything?'
'Why do women think eating chocolate does? It's the nature of the beast. — Nora Roberts

A writer of stories is a liar. — John Steinbeck

Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood. — Gertrude Stein

Reality might be described as the eternal equipoise of positive and negative. — Rachel Cusk

I'm not a guy who curses very much in my personal life. When I curse it sounds like a kid trying to be cool. But I think there are quite a few people, my father being one of them, who use curse words rather eloquently. — Justin Halpern

Across Africa there is what I call a colonialist mentality or orthodoxy. Orthodoxy in the sense that a lot of things have gone wrong in Africa in the post-colonial period. And time and time again, any time something went wrong, the leadership claims that it was never their fault. — George Ayittey

A smile is the solution to every problem. Even if you don't feel the happiness behind it, a smile will tell life to fuck off because you've got this. — Kathy Coopmans

But Adam Smith was a philosopher as well as well as an economist, famous in his time as much for his Theory of Moral Sentiments as for The Wealth of Nations. And as he understood so well, society is more than the sum of its individual parts. — Paul Ormerod