Slechte Vrienden Quotes & Sayings

For sheer sexiness, a man must be beautiful. Funny. yes. Clever, no. — Jilly Cooper

The mechanical clock," as Lewis Mumford wrote, "made possible the idea of regular production, regular working hours and a standardized product." In short, without the clock, capitalism would have been quite impossible.4 The paradox, the surprise, and the wonder are that the clock was invented by men who wanted to devote themselves more rigorously to God; it ended as the technology of greatest use to men who wished to devote themselves to the accumulation of money. In the eternal struggle between God and Mammon, the clock quite unpredictably favored the latter. Unforeseen consequences stand in the way of all those who think they see clearly the direction in which a new technology will take us. — Neil Postman

You have to work from one point to go to another. So I admire work ethic, I think it should be reinforced through our neighborhoods, that everybody should work hard, practice makes perfect, you have to be diligent with what you want, you have to apply yourself, you have to motivate your self. You have to do for self by yourself, and then you can do things for other people. That's what I had to do, I had to do for self.. — Tupac Shakur

Doing the little things can make a big difference. — Yogi Berra

There's nothing shameful in acknowledging that you don't have the answers to every question about life. Just accept the fact that you know only a fraction of what's going on in the world. You don't have to attach explanations in terms of a special revelation of God's will, a glimpse at the supernatural, evidence of a conspiracy, or anything else. — Harry Browne

One can only face in others what one can face in oneself. — James A. Baldwin

Their chief occupations are feasting, fighting, and making love, and playing the most beautiful music. They have only one industrious person amongst them, the lepra-caun - the shoemaker. — W.B.Yeats

Multiculturalism means your kid has to learn some wretched tribal dirge for the school holiday concert instead of getting to sing 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.' — Henry Hazlitt

I wanted to say something about the universe. There's God, angels, plants ... and horseshit. — Zero Mostel

Income inequality and wage stagnation finally took their place among the principal moral issues of our time. — David Rolf

What women would do if they could not cry, nobody knows. What poor, defenceless creatures they would be! — Douglas William Jerrold

People make mistakes. — Lauren Barnholdt