"Saving New York City from bankruptcy is like making love to a gorilla. You don't stop when you're tired; you stop when he's tired."

-- Felix Rohatyn

#New York Quotes #Tired Quotes #Persistence Quotes

“All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind.”

Source : A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge pt. 1, sec. 6 (1710)
“What is acted out on the female body parallels the larger practices of domination, fragmentation, and conquest against the earth body, which is being polluted, strip-mined, deforested, and cut up into parcels of private property. Equally, this pattern points to the fragmentation of the psyche, which ultimately underlies and enables all of this damage.”
“Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not.”
“You must embrace the Word of God as the most effective instrument for change.”
“I think my ideal man would speak many languages. He would speak Ibo and Yoruba and English and French and all of the others. He could speak with any person, even the soldiers, and if there was violence in their heart he could change it. He would not have to fight, do you see? Maybe he would not be very handsome, but he would be beautiful when he spoke. He would be very kind, even if you burned his food because you were laughing and talking with your girlfriends instead of watching the cooking. He would just say, 'Ah, never mind'.”
“By now, it is probably very late at night, and you have stayed up to read this book when you should have gone to sleep. If this is the case, then I commend you for falling into my trap. It is a writer's greatest pleasure to hear that someone was kept up until the unholy hours of the morning reading one of his books. It goes back to authors being terrible people who delight in the suffering of others. Plus, we get a kickback from the caffeine industry...”
“In Cuba we are building a socialist society and we could say we are on the verge of a communist society which is hard to achieve, very hard to achieve, but is a longing worth fighting for.”

Source : "The Future of Cuba". Inteview with Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. February 27, 2015.
“Historically, more people have died of religion than cancer.”

Source : Dick Francis (2006). “Straight”, p.104, Penguin

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