Varoufakis Book Quotes & Sayings

The supernatural can be very annoying until one finds the key that transforms it into science," he observed mildly ... "Come on, Ox, let's go out and get killed. — Barry Hughart

It had given him a charge of entitlement and invincibility he would draw upon through life, like a limitless bank account.) — Joyce Carol Oates

Generals who save troops for the next day are always beaten. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people. — Florence Welch

We're more of a bag-and-tag operation. — Lara Adrian

This book originally aimed at pressing a useful metaphor into the service of elucidating a troubled world; a world — Yanis Varoufakis

When we were children we were errant enough to wish to be birds for the day but there's nothing easier to lose than playfulness. — Jim Harrison

The rock, when one came to think of it, was the utmost expression of human need; even mere feeling yearned for it; it was the highest comparison of loyalty in love and friendship. Christ Himself had used that comparison for the disciple to whom He gave the keys of His Church. And the Hebrews of the Old Testament, always being carried captive into foreign lands,
their rock was an idea of God, the only thing their conquerors could not take from them. — Willa Cather

9/11 was basically caused by box cutters, and that changed the world. — Gerard Butler

I'm scared if I stay, I'll keep looking back and never look forward. — Katie McGarry

You know how old I am? I'm so old, I remember when Letterman used to be funny and it was presidents who were serious. That's how old I am. — Rush Limbaugh

"Hard" science fiction probes alternative possible futures by means of reasoned extrapolations in much the same way that good historical fiction reconstructs the probable past. Even far-out fantasy can present a significant test of human values exposed to a new environment. Deriving its most cogent ideas from the tension between permanence and change, science fiction combines the diversions of novelty with its pertinent kind of realism. — Jack Williamson

that of the mind is in abysmal stillness; — Lao-Tzu

And he knew it was crappy, but he was kind of grateful that people like that existed. Because people like Steve and Tina existed, too, and they needed to be fed. if it wasn't that redhead, it was going to be somebody else. And if it wasn't somebody else, it was going to be Park. — Rainbow Rowell

Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can't identify with him closely as a member of their own generation, and he isn't yet historical. — Leslie Fiedler