Pissarides Minimum Quotes & Sayings

China gets their oil from Libya. Why isn't China involved? They're going out spending billions of dollars a day on trying to take over the world economically. And we're spending billions and billions and billions of dollars on policing the world. Why isn't China involved with Libya? That - we don't get oil from Libya, China does. — Donald Trump

If the Holocaust didn't take place, why then did this regime of occupation come about? Why do the European countries commit themselves to defending this regime? Permit me to make one more point. We are of the opinion that, if an historical occurrence conforms to the truth, this truth will be revealed all the more clearly if there is more research into it and more discussion about it. — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Here he stands before me as he was, in midlife, and perhaps that is why reading them is so painful for me, he wasn't only much more than my feelings for him but infinitely more, a complete and living person in the midst of his life. — Karl Ove Knausgard

The window gave onto a view of dove-gray roofs and balconies, each one containing the same cracked flowerpot and sleeping feline. It was as if the entire city of Paris had agreed to abide by a single understated taste. Each neighbor was doing his or her own to keep up standards, which was difficult because the French ideal wasn't clearly delineated like the neatness and greenness of American lawns, but more of a picturesque disrepair. It took courage to let things fall apart so beautifully. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Even if he doesn't eat, he knows the cookies. I'll bet his mother stuffed him full as a kid. (Tory)
Not really. My mom wasn't the Betty Crocker kind. (Acheron)
(Not unless it involved napalm or plagues.) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

For a politician, the mans to power is paramount, and the ideology, in a way, can look after itself; I'm afraid a writer can't think like that. A writer has to think that it's more important to be right than to be popular. — David Hare

One must not be mean with the affections; what is spent of the fund is renewed in the spending itself. — Sigmund Freud

That it has pleased God to make Holy Scripture obscure in certain places lest, if it were perfectly clear to all, it might be vulgarized and subjected to disrespect or be so misunderstood by people of limited intelligence as to lead them into error. — Pope Gregory VII

Life is short, death is forever — Marsha Qualey

IF UNIVERSAL COUNTLESS GALAXIES STAR'S AND PLANETS ON SKY EXCOGITATED FOR HUNCH .COULD WE EXPEDITE SECRETS OF GOD EXISTENCE & PAST,PRESENT &FUTURE TIMES CREATIVE CRAFT OF COSMOS&SOULS NASCENCY LIMN. — Various

He can't make me love him when he's going to leave me. When he wants to leave me. When he knows this is the end. — Jasmine Warga

The things we can handle, if we had patiently endured! — Lailah Gifty Akita