Waimanu Quotes & Sayings

What the working man sells is not directly his Labor, but his Laboring Power, the temporary disposal of which he makes over to the capitalist. This is so much the case that I do not know whether by the English Law, but certainly by some Continental Laws, the maximum time is fixed for which a man is allowed to sell his laboring power. If allowed to do so for any indefinite period whatever, slavery would be immediately restored. Such a sale, if it comprised his lifetime, for example, would make him at once the lifelong slave of his employer. — Karl Marx

You do not cause death, you do not prevent death, you are a servant of Destiny, not its agent. Get over yourself. — Christopher Moore

The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices against half the human race that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition. — Eva Figes

Brazil is very unpopular in Brazil. — Nelson Rodrigues

Believe in yourself and others will believe in you. — Robert Cheeke

I shrank from the faces and forms by which I was surrounded. They were all fixed faces, full not of possibilities but impossibilities, — C.S. Lewis

How was I supposed to tell my Seth where I was when I had nothing but freaking trees- — Jennifer L. Armentrout

There is part of me that longs to have the back-to-the-earth life - make my own bread, grow my own wheat, just be really self-sufficient - but I am not, at the moment, willing to give up the luxury of modern life, and amazing schools for my kids, and things that I've come to rely on that are parts of society. — Lauren Groff

We didn't, after all, sing "Another One Bites The Dust" as the coffin was carried out; Hazel and the vicar had settled instead on the more traditional "How Great Thou Art". And Aunty Rose's old adversary the mayor was pressed into service as a coffin bearer to replace Matt.
Rose Adele Thornton, born in Bath, England, died in Waimanu, New Zealand, a mere fifty-three years later. Adept and compassionate nurse, fervent advocate of animal welfare, champion of correct diction and tireless crusader against the misuse of apostrophes. Experimental chef, peerless aunt, brave sufferer and true friend. She had the grace and courage to thoroughly enjoy a life which denied her everything she most wanted. The bravest woman I ever knew. — Danielle Hawkins

I drink for the thirst to come. — Francois Rabelais

What follows is what happens each time I fall. I do not know if these things really happen but this is what I believe happens. As your eyes move across these words, some sacred engine is coming back to life and I am beginning to fall again. Sometimes, it feels like I'm floating — Iain S. Thomas

I stopped feeling like I didn't belong anywhere, and realized that I actually belonged anywhere I wanted to be. — Sophia Amoruso

I just want to be able to stand up straight for a little while before I get cut down. — Henry Rollins

What does Yagwavalkya say?
'It is not our hermitage,' he says - our religion ,we might say - 'still less the colour of our skin, that produces virtue ; virtue must be practised. Therefore let no one do to others what he would not have done to himself. — Friedrich Max Muller