Polanyi Fictitious Commodities Quotes & Sayings

I think every writer of detective fiction writing today has been influenced by Mr. Parker. I'm of a generation that followed Robert Parker, and it was impossible to read the genre and not be influenced by him. — Robert Crais

The grandmothers are the most prayerful creatures on the planet. They don't back down until they see the results. — Euginia Herlihy

Life just happens. It's what you're believing about life that makes you suffer. — Byron Katie

In a stream of life, we find the source of life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Two powerful, opposing forces - one seducing people to eat and the other telling them they are failures if they do - create heartache everywhere. — Emme

The Bible does not present us with a single model for womanhood, and the notion that it contains a sort of one-size-fits-all formula for how to be a woman of faith is a myth. — Rachel Held Evans

Her knees entered the ground. Her moment had arrived. Still in disbelief, she started to dig. He couldn't be dead. He couldn't be dead. He couldn't - Within seconds, snow was carved into her skin. Frozen blood was cracked across her hands. Somewhere in all the snow, she could see her broken heart, in two pieces. Each half was glowing, and beating under all that white. She realized her mother had come back for her only when she felt the boniness of a hand on her shoulder. She was being dragged away. A warm scream filled her throat. — Markus Zusak

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance. — John Henry Newman

Economists tend to think they are much, much smarter than historians, than everybody. And this is a bit too much because at the end of the day, we don't know very much in economics. — Thomas Piketty

When I talk about subtle bodies, causal bodies and things like that, it is a good idea not to take it all completely literally. It cannot be put into words. — Frederick Lenz

For me, going to Minneapolis is like going to Mecca. — Stephan Pastis

Love what you read and read what you love! — Lou Kelly

My credentials, briefly: I no longer go to church or believe in God, but I can still name every one of the fruits of the Spirit and reeled for days upon hearing the announcement that Audio Adrenaline was reunited with one of the singers from DC Talk. — Mallory Ortberg