Zumpano Athens Quotes & Sayings

The perpetually indignant elites inhabited a self-contained echo chamber of boardrooms, golf clubs, dinner parties and private media. They thought they were Venezuela. They could not see how their hysterics repelled and radicalised less-privileged compatriots. Thus they kept lunging and, in election after election, would keep losing. — Rory Carroll

What are you smiling at? You look like a creepy, old geezer, — K.M. Shea

A virtuous man may have a choleric or a sanguine constitution, be gay or grave, unreproved, be firm till he is almost over-bearing, or weakly subsmissive, have no will or opinion of his own; but all women are to be levelled, by meekness and docility, into one character of yielding softness and gentle compliance — Mary Wollstonecraft

We live in a nation of pigs and murderers. — James Baldwin

They're all so highly educated, you know. Education is a great shield against experience. It offers so much, ready-made and all from the best shops, that there's a temptation to miss your own life in pursuing the lives of your betters. It makes you wise in some ways, but it can make you a blindfolded fool in others. — Robertson Davies

Pain is the University of Life — Bangambiki Habyarimana

I have seen God and he is this girl. — Peter Hedges

If I were not a king, I would be a university man; and if it were so that I must be a prisoner, if I might have my wish, I would desire to have no other prison than that library [the Bodleian]. — King James I

We all have our little sorrows ... and the littler you are, the larger the sorrow. — Martha N. Beck

The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory. — Oscar Wilde

My worries travel around in my head on their well worn path — Mary Ann Shaffer

The most distinguished advocate and the most distinguished critic of modern captialism were in agreement on one essential point: the job makes the person. Adam Smith and Karl Marx both recognized the extent to which people's attitudes and behaviors take shape out of the experiences they have in their work. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Reading is your window to the world that no one can close for you. — Sara Samarasinghe

In the grand scheme of things, a lot more women go through this than I think people realize or talk about, so that wasn't a problem for me as far as saying that I have endometriosis. — Kirsten Storms