Vesuvian Face Quotes & Sayings

You still really fight for good parts. It never stops. It's never a breeze. The people at the top of their game work as hard as the people at the bottom. — Steve Zahn

The property that grounded the self in Romanticism was sincerity, and in modernism was authenticity, then in postmod ernism it is visibility.10 — Chris Hedges

Economics operates legitimately and usefully within a 'given' framework which lies altogether outside the economic calculus. We might say that economics does not stand on its own feet, or that it is a 'derived' body of thought - derived from meta- economics. If the economist fails to study meta-economics, or, even worse. If he remains unaware of the fact that there are boundaries to the applicability of the economic calculus, he is likely to fall into a similar kind of error to that of certain medieval theologians who tried to settle questions of physics by means of biblical quotations. Every science is beneficial within its proper limits but becomes evil and destructive as soon as it transgresses them. The — Ernst F. Schumacher

One of the hardest questions I have been asked is 'How will you manage the army if you are having menstrual cramps?' I have also been asked if I will have the courage to face criminals. My answer is that courage is not a matter of gender. — Josefina Vazquez Mota

Any philosophic explanation of Quality is going to be both false and true precisely because it is a philosophic explanation. The process of philosophic explanation is an analytic process, a process of breaking something down into subjects and predicates. What I mean (and everybody else means) by the word 'quality' cannot be broken down into subjects and predicates. This is not because Quality is so mysterious but because Quality is so simple, immediate and direct. — Robert M. Pirsig

I felt like they only cared about what I could do for them, not what they could do for me. — Norma McCorvey

What hope is there for innocence if it is not recognized? — Simone Weil

But he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself — John Milton

I've been many kinds of writers in my career: novelist; tele-playwright; short story writer. As a high-school student, I wrote amateur pieces for fanzines, and I've written for Hollywood. — George R R Martin

As athletes, we think we're heroes, but when you witness firsthand what I saw yesterday, you realize who the real heroes are. — Tom Brady

What's wan man's news is another man's throubles. — Finley Peter Dunne

A consistent pursuit of classical physics forces a transformation in the very heart of that physics. — Werner Heisenberg

There is an old Russian saying. 'A serpent changes his skin, not his fangs. — M.K. Hobson