Rivalrous Consumption Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes I look around and wonder, how the hell did I get here? How is this my life? It all changed so fast. But then I stop wondering. Because how this life became mine doesn't really fucking matter. I'm just crazy-happy that it is. — Emma Chase

How pleasant it is to have money. — Arthur Hugh Clough

American art in general ... takes to surreal exaggerations and metaphors; but its Puritan work ethic has little use for the playful self-indulgence behind Parisian Surrealism. — John Updike

Watch yourself, bitch. You're nothing but a thief and gob shite scumbag with a face like an arse and a mind to go with it, — D.H. Toole

The blurring of the line between policy and strategy] encouraged soldiers to make the preposterous claim that policy should be subservient to their conduct of operations, and (especially in democratic countries) it drew the statesman on to overstep the definite border of his sphere and interfere with his military employees in the actual use of their tools. — B.H. Liddell Hart

The imagination is a healthy thing, and a great many scientific discoveries could not have been made without it, but it need to be harnessed to some serious object if it is to come to anything. — Diane Setterfield

I did a lot of reading of first person accounts from Koreans and combatants and aid workers. And I spoke to relatives. A lot of wonderful photographs were made available to me from that period - 1950-1956 - and those were given to me by a Korean newspaper in Seoul. Ruined villages, refugees streaming through a river valley, GI's and orphans and orphanages, those tiny details that you can only see in a picture. — Chang-rae Lee

The daemon wind died down, and the bloated, fungoid moon sank reddeningly in the west. — H.P. Lovecraft

of dark passageways, their footsteps echoing. Schoenberg — Anne-Marie O'Connor

In the U.S. Constitution there was a category of creatures called three-fifth humans - the enslaved population. They weren't considered persons. And in fact women were barely considered persons, so they didn't have rights. — Noam Chomsky

If laws acting upon private interests can not always be avoided, they should be confined within the narrowest limits, and left wherever possible to the legislatures of the States. — Martin Van Buren

Trust the faith everything will be okay. — Nadair Desmar

As the old Zen saying reminds us, the finger pointing at the moon is not the moon. — Helen Palmer Geisel