Pleonexia Quotes & Sayings

I want you very badly, especially now, when you're biting your lip again. — E.L. James

Ah! How sweet coffee tastes! Lovelier than a thousand kisses, sweeter far than muscatel wine! — Johann Sebastian Bach

It was farcical. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I've got to get ghost. — Kresley Cole

Memory overshadows the present and dims the future "into something thicker than its usual pea soup." — Vladimir Nabokov

The more careless, the more modish. — Jonathan Swift

One of the key moments in the creation of modernity occurs when production moves outside the household. So long as productive work occurs within the structure of households, it is easy and right to understand that work as part of the sustaining of the community of the household and of those wider forms of community which the household in turn sustains. As, and to the extent that, work moves outside the household and is put to the service of impersonal capital, the realm of work tends to become separated from everything but the service of biological survival and the reproduction of the labor force, on the one hand, and that of institutionalized acquisitiveness, on the other. Pleonexia, a vice in the Aristotelian scheme, is now the driving force of modern productive work. — Alasdair MacIntyre

When you feel stuck and can't seem to move ahead, always remember that you don't have to get it right, you just have to get it going! — Barbara Corcoran