"Hope drives us to invent new fixes for old messes, which in turn create ever more dangerous messes. Hope elects the politician with the biggest empty promise; and as any stockbroker or lottery seller knows, most of us will take a slim hope over prudent and predictable frugality. Hope, like greed, fuels the engine of capitalism."

-- Margaret Atwood

#Greed Quotes #Promise Quotes #Slim Quotes

“Whatever we are, whatever we make of ourselves, is all we will ever have - and that, in its profound simplicity, is the meaning of life.”
“As soon as the Gospels were written, speech without experience began to dabble with the new facts proposed by the existence of the Church. People tried to think the new life without being touched by it first in some form of call, listening, passion or change of heart.”

Source : Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy (1978). “The Fruit of Lips: Of Why Four Gospels?”, p.85, Wipf and Stock Publishers
“My childhood memories reside somewhere in my subconscious part of my brain. Somehow I feel that my subconscious part creates far more interesting things than my conscious part can ever dream of.”

Source : Source: run-riot.com
“A lot of coaches want guys to be loose for games. I never wanted them to be loose. I wanted their hands sweating, their knees shaking, their eyes bulging. I wanted them to act like we were going to war.”

Source : "Hall of Fame UNLV coach Jerry Tarkanian dies aged 84", www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2015.
“Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.”
“But I think it would be irresponsible for me not to say what I really believe in my heart to be true - that there are some serious inequities that we face as women and that we can work to address these inequities”
“My pain is constant and sharp...this confession has meant nothing”
“You can't educate people that are not healthy. But you certainly can't keep them healthy if they're not educated.”

Source : "Then & Now: Joycelyn Elders". www.cnn.com. July 20, 2005.

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