Sorbonne B2 Quotes & Sayings

I know I can be accused of sacrilege in writing about political economy in the style of a novel about love or pirates. But I confess I get a pain from reading valuable works by certain sociologists, political experts, economists and historians who write in code. — Eduardo Galeano

Do we believe that there is equal economic opportunity out there in the real world, right now, for each and every one of these groups? If we believed in the tooth fairy, if we believed in the Easter Bunny, we might well believe that. — William Weld

It's not like I didn't think I had any demons. I did, but I could name them- and even provide an address and telephone number for each. As far as I was concerned, those demons could go to therapy instead of me. — Lisa Lutz

It had become boring to write: 'I like Clare Balding'. To say: 'I don't like Clare Balding' is much more newsworthy. — Clare Balding

If you want it, become it. — Mastin Kipp

Of all the paths you take in life,
make sure a few of them are dirt. — John Muir

Apart from the added efficiency, the willingness to be ruthless helps innovation. Past experience and relationships are of little value in driving radical innovation: indeed, — Raghuram G. Rajan

Traditions brings continuity to one's existence, but this sort of continuity is precisely what has been increasingly lost
throughout modernity. — Lars Fr. H. Svendsen

Somewhere inside we do know everything about ourselves. There is no real forgetting. Perhaps we know somewhere, too, about all there is to come. — Jane Gardam

Love will wash you clean in the nights disgrace. — Rickie Lee Jones

History, that is to say, the unconscious, universal life of humanity, in the aggregate, every moment profits by the life of kings for itself, as an instrument for the accomplishment of its own ends. — Leo Tolstoy

Everyone is someone else's catalyst for selling something these days. — Tina Brown

A smart machine will first consider which is more worth its while: to perform the given task or, instead, to figure some way out of it. — Stanislaw Lem

If it's ever too much ... if the burden of me is ever too great--"
Softly, I place my hands over his lips, silently begging him to stop.
"Don't you know? You are not my burden. Never." I brush my lips lightly against his. "You? You are my gift. — J.A. DeRouen