Praised Crossword Quotes & Sayings

I sat next to a woman called Tadi and I asked her what she would do with the shells she earned and she said her husband would use them to buy another wife. 'I cannot make this bag fast enough,' she said. We all fell over laughing. — Lily King

Why are we in this mess, now facing the prospect of economic armageddon? It's because the prevailing characteristic has been greed, and it doesn't matter whether it's individuals living beyond their means or governments living beyond their means or people seeking to get rich quick. — Jeremy Paxton

This is a serious analysis of a ridiculous subject, which is of course the opposite of what is usual in economics. — Paul Krugman

If shackling former prisoners with a lifetime of debt and authorizing discrimination against them in employment, housing, education, and public benefits is not enough to send the message that they are not wanted and not even considered full citizens, then stripping voting rights from those labeled criminals surely gets the point across. — Michelle Alexander

I'd rather look ridiculous when everybody else does than plain and sensible all by myself. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

I can do anything you want me to do so long as I don't have to speak. — Linda Evangelista

There is no such thing as a minor operation. Any opening, incision, cut, gash or puncture in the human body not put there by God is a blasphemy and a major disaster. — Samuel Taylor

To instil into the Established Order the complacent portrayal of its drawbacks has nowadays become a paradoxical but incontrovertible means of exalting it. — Roland Barthes

While men believe in the infinite some ponds will be thought to be bottomless. — Henry David Thoreau

I think I am slowly becoming an anarchist, that this is only another label for my privateness, and I think that you will understand this in the sense of being against collectivity. — Karel Capek