Yannis Ritsos Quotes & Sayings

The promise of Obama's presidency, in many people's minds, is partly that America will move toward becoming a post-racial society. It's pretty clear, though, that we aren't there yet. — Timothy Noah

The biggest cost of poor quality is when your customer buys it from someone else because they didn't like yours. — W. Edwards Deming

I did 13-something years of talking to wrestlers and promoters about why they did certain things and why they booked matches a certain way and what they were thinking and whether they were satisfied with the draw. And I got a lot of insight in the business. — Billy Corgan

A hedge fund manager whose clients demand monthly performance reports has different needs than any individual investors with a 20-year time horizon. The needs of that long-term investor differ markedly from someone who is retiring in three years. — Barry Ritholtz

I looked at my little family all smiling and quite happy at the thought that Charlie had tried to maim or kill Mr. Lomax - or at least blow up his van - and I realized then that I was the only normal one. — Nina Stibbe

Politicians like to tell people what they want to hear - and what they want to hear is what won't happen. — Paul Samuelson

I may be just an empty flesh terminal reliant on technology for all my ideas, memories and relationships, but I am confident that all of that everything that makes me a unique human being is still out there somewhere, safe in a theoretical storage space owned by giant, multinational corporations. — Stephen Colbert

Goldie was a believer in the imperial project, which is to say, in the civilising power of social progress. — Damon Galgut

A cough so robust that I tapped into two new seams of phlegm. — Bill Bryson

A book has neither object nor subject; it is made of variously formed matters, and very different dates and speeds. — Gilles Deleuze

The pattern [of the crisis of the deeper life] seems to be self-centeredness, self-effort, increasing inner dissatisfaction and outer discouragement, a temptation to give it all up because there is no better way, and then finding the Spirit of God to be their strength, their guide, their confidence and companion--in a word, their life. — V. Raymond Edman

Bad people drink bad beer. You almost never see an empty bottle of Rochefort tossed onto the side of the road. — Dave Cook

Faith is our belief that God will do what He says that He will do. — Janet A. Nicolet

Getting eaten by a giant crocodile was bad enough.
The kid with the glowing sword only made my day worse. — Rick Riordan

Death," she said, as her hand dropped away, " is how you know you were alive in the first place. — Vicki Pettersson