Raczek Quotes & Sayings

To Steve, these stores were pulling off something he had never been able to manage: they sold a lifestyle product at an absurdly high margin by presenting it in a beautiful and yet informative way. — Brent Schlender

I wasn't lucky, I deserved it. — Margaret Thatcher

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient. — Roland Barthes

To fight evil, you have to understand the dark. — Nalini Singh

Sometimes I like to think that characters you play are all the other people you could've been in a lifetime. — Mia Maestro

He who builds on the people, builds on the mud — Niccolo Machiavelli

Managers must have the discipline not to keep pulling up the flowers to see if their roots are healthy. — Robert Townsend

The white man, as one Indian said, "was in the Black Hills just like maggots";10 wasicu, or "the greedy one" (literally, "he-who-takes-the-fat"),11 was the term the Lakota used to describe the miners, and it later became their term for whites in general. "The love of possessions is a disease with them," said Sitting Bull, who was never behindhand in his contempt. — Peter Matthiessen

The good things of life were made to enjoy. Enjoying a thing means sharing it with others. — E.C. McKenzie

I give thanks for all that has passed, for all that is passing, and for all that is yet to come. — Meg Rosoff

I absolutely cannot see how one can later make up for having failed to go to a good school at the proper time. For this is what distinguishes the hard school as a good school from all others: that much is demanded; and sternly demanded; that the good, even the exceptional, is demanded as the norm; that praise is rare, that indulgence is nonexistent; that blame is apportioned sharply, objectively, without regard for talent or antecedents. What does one learn in a hard school? Obeying and commanding. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I grew up in this poor place, with very limited circumstances, at about 16 years of age was sent by my family to work, and instead of remaining in the position into which I was sent, I somehow worked my way out of it without any help from anyone, just luck. — Jamaica Kincaid

This very fact that crowds possess in common ordinary qualities explains why they can never accomplish acts demanding a high degree of intelligence. — Gustave Le Bon

Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas on which women paint their dreams. — Rudolph Valentino

What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do. — Alan Watts