Sayyidina Quotes & Sayings

Men are kids at heart. They want to be nourished and pet like a dog. — Nicki Minaj

Love is a kind of warfare. — Ovid

This can be lonely work, but it connects you to other people in ways that many of the things we could do with our lives do not. — Christine Sneed

How delightful it is to be here.(Gym) If only one could spend one's entire life in this state of easygoing physical democracy. — Christopher Isherwood

Like casinos, large corporate entities have studied the numbers and the ways in which people respond to them. These are not con tricks - they're not even necessarily against our direct interests, although sometimes they can be - but they are hacks for the human mind, ways of manipulating us into particular decisions we otherwise might not make. They are also, in a way, deliberate underminings of the core principle of the free market, which derives its legitimacy from the idea that informed self-interest on aggregate sets appropriate prices for items. The key word is 'informed'; the point of behavioural economics - or rather, of its somewhat buccaneering corporate applications - is to skew our perception of the purchase to the advantage of the company. The overall consequence of that is to tilt the construction of our society away from what it should be if we were making the rational decisions classical economics imagines we would, and towards something else. — Nick Harkaway

Exploitation of the Negro through economic restriction and segregation the present system is sound and will doubtless continue until this gives place to the saner policy of actual interracial cooperation
not the present farce of racial manipulation in which the Negro is a figurehead. — Carter G. Woodson

It's much easier to read the stories that have a lot of dialogue; of course, they flow much more easily into speech. — Deborah Eisenberg

Depression as one example is an illness that has a chemical basis, but also is deeply embedded in cultural norms about gender, social class, race. — Jonathan Michel Metzl

I perform in the major leagues of what I do. It's incredible. — Darrell Hammond