Pissarides Quotes & Sayings

I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why should it keep what I must lose? Every moment that passes takes something from me and gives something to it. Oh, if it were only the other way! If the picture could change, and I could be always what I am now! Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day - mock me horribly! — Oscar Wilde

An ordinary supervisor is a boss. A Super Supervisor is a leader. People avoid bosses, they follow leaders. — Mildred Ramsey

I've seen firsthand how the bad leads to a generous abundance of good. — Mahtob Mahmoody

Drowned, dead, duplicitous slut! — Christopher Moore

If getting a great body was easy, every woman would look Jessica Biel, and every guy would have a body like Kellan Lutz. — John Romaniello

Quite early on, and certainly since I started writing, I found that philosophical questions occupied me more than any other kind. I hadn't really thought of them as being philosophical questions, but one rapidly comes to an understanding that philosophy's only really about two questions: 'What is true?' and 'What is good?' — Tom Stoppard

I'm astonished by my success. — Danielle Steel

Privacy is ... connected to a politics of domination. — Bell Hooks

Society develops a type of self-censorship, with the knowledge that surveillance exists - a self-censorship that is even expressed when people communicate with each other privately. — Julian Assange

My co-winners, Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides, and I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for this very great honor. We each feel privileged and humbled to be named the winners of the 2010 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. — Dale T. Mortensen

Hate is such a strong emotion. Much more powerful than indifference. But those who burn with hate can also love just as intensely. Can't they? When you hate
or love
do you do so with all your heart? So much that it feels as if you might die from it? — Morgan Rhodes

Germany is dictating its policy in Europe — Christopher A. Pissarides

A man once asked me ... how I managed in my books to write such natural conversation between men when they were by themselves. Was I, by any chance, a member of a large, mixed family with a lot of male friends? I replied that, on the contrary, I was an only child and had practically never seen or spoken to any men of my own age till I was about twenty-five. "Well," said the man, "I shouldn't have expected a woman (meaning me) to have been able to make it so convincing." I replied that I had coped with this difficult problem by making my men talk, as far as possible, like ordinary human beings. This aspect of the matter seemed to surprise the other speaker; he said no more, but took it away to chew it over. One of these days it may quite likely occur to him that women, as well as men, when left to themselves, talk very much like human beings also. — Dorothy L. Sayers

Where life ends, peace begins! — Debasish Mridha

There are people who die and, with all due respect, you don't lose anything. But he was one of those that when they're gone you feel it. As if the whole world had become, from one day to the next, a little heavier. — Alessandro Baricco

Russia's main weaknesses are inflexibility and dependence on energy resources — Christopher A. Pissarides

After three days without one, the desire to read a newspaper vanished. And really, one was happier without. — Josephine Tey

Russia does not control oil prices - OPEC does. So Russia is a hostage in the hands of those who control these prices — Christopher A. Pissarides

What makes us human is not only the fact that we suffer, but also because we aspire to be happy." - Ashutosh in the Book "Songs of the Mist — Shashi