Turgot Economics Quotes & Sayings

You'll go off to your S&M high school, and I'm going to stay and lose my mind. I'm going to be so socially destroyed, I'm going to turn radioactive." "Well," said Laurence. "I don't know that it's possible to 'turn radioactive,' unless you're exposed to certain isotopes, and in that case you probably wouldn't survive. — Charlie Jane Anders

The world could burn around her, the cities turn to dust, the cries of a hundred thousand fill the air, and she would get up after the fire died and walk barefoot and burned over the charred soil in search of clean water, a weapon, a purpose. She would rebuild. — Kameron Hurley

Instead,
she's as still
as a leaf-littered pond,
dark water evaporating,
waiting desperately for rain. — Emma Cameron

There are competing studies on how much crime drops or doesn't drop when there are strict rules on gun possession and sale. I don't think there's any question that New York City's very tough laws have reduced violence. — Gail Collins

We all can have Fun if we can accept each other in Peace. — Jan Jansen

I always wanted to be a doctor and go to art school, but I thought I'd regret it if I didn't act. — Kate Ashfield

It is not virtue, wisdom, valour, wit,
Strength, comeliness of shape, or amplest merit,
That woman's love can win, or long inherit;
But what it is, hard is to say,
Harder to hit. — John Milton

Actual places, landscapes that exist[ed] simultaneously in both physical and metaphysical space ... true geographical refugia, verdant valleys dominated by protective mountain deities where people could seek solace as lonely pilgrims, or flee violence as a community in time of war. — Wade Davis

A real Christmas baby was not to be lightly named. — Kate Douglas Wiggin

Oh, I'll trust you," the boy told him carelessly. "It hardly matters. We are all betrayed sooner or later - all betrayed, or traitors."
"I see that a flair for the dramatic runs in the blood," Magnus said under his breath. — Cassandra Clare

Fifteen years, and all he had to show were an amount of self-pity and a busted marriage with an innocent daughter hanging between them. It was more disgusting than sad. — Ian Rankin

All is vanity, look you; and so the preacher is vanity too. — William Makepeace Thackeray