Republika Ng Quotes & Sayings

From such examples, I derived the rule that what is called "healthy" is generally unhealthy, just as "social" networks are antisocial, and the "knowledge"-based economy is typically ignorant. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

'A Walk to Remember' was a huge movie for me. I thought Mandy Moore was the coolest thing that ever happened. And Shane West - man, did I have a crush on him. — Britt Robertson

Some people are jewels in the wrong setting. — Sophie Irene Loeb

The Marshall Plan will go down in history as one of America's greatest contributions to the peace of the world. — Harry S. Truman

What was educationally significant and hard to measure has been replaced by what is educationally insignificant and easy to measure. So now we measure how well well we taught what isn't worth learning." Dosta and Bena Kallick, Habits of Mind — Angela Provitera-McGlynn

Grief was for the others; sorrow and pain were for the others; some terrible mistake had been made. — John Cheever

Democracy can't be just for billionaires and corporations. — Hillary Clinton

People in love - with nurturing, attentive non-movie-star parents - they would never invent gravity. Nothing except deep misery leads to real success. — Chuck Palahniuk

I've written a detective series myself, set in an imaginary, and slightly futuristic, Chinese city. The novels have an extremely tenuous relationship with the real world, since the hero is the city's Hell and ends up with a sidekick who is a demon. — Liz Williams

My worst job was working in the laundry of a nursing home. — Rickie Lee Jones

But there's a lot of 50's and a lot of boomers and a lot of kids in their 30's that grew up with us. — Harvey Korman

He who negates present society, and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property, is a revolutionary whether he calls himself an anarchist or a communist. — Johann Most

Now, I'm not very vain. If I'd ever been, making my living covered in various grease and dirt mixtures would have cured me quickly. Still, I wasn't up to facing two sexy men when I had one eye swollen mostly shut and half of my face black and blue. — Patricia Briggs