Sleiman France Quotes & Sayings

At some point, extra incomes don't go to sate desires but to attempt to buy status through 'positional goods' - like the hottest car on the block. The problem is that there can only be one hottest car on the block. — Nicholas Kristof

Spokespeople sell women the Iron Maiden and name her "Health": if public discourse were really concerned with women's health, it would turn angrily upon this aspect of the beauty myth. — Naomi Wolf

Universities hire professors the way some men choose wives - they want the ones the others will admire. — Morris Kline

Drink today, and drown all sorrow; you shall perhaps not do tomorrow. — John Fletcher

I didn't say I was running, did I? — Rick Perry

If I really believed in Friedman's economic theory, then I'd be quite satisfied to spend the rest of my life with a garden hose shoved down my throat, being filled with custard by representatives of the people of China. — Nigel Lawson

I've never looked forward before. I've always looked back. I think about the past way too much and I think about what I should have done and everything I did wrong and I've never once looked forward in my life. — Colleen Hoover

Me? As England's answer to Jonah Lomu? Joanna Lumley, more likely. — Damian Hopley

Work begins when the fear of doing nothing at all finally trumps the terror of doing it badly. — Alain De Botton

The same goes for envy, anger and insults - said the master. - When they are not accepted, they continue to belong to the one who carried them. — Paulo Coelho