"The men of the past had convictions, while we moderns have only opinions."

-- Heinrich Heine

#Past Quotes #Men Quotes #Opinion Quotes

“Nothing a housewife does is of value in capitalist terms because it does not take place on the market and therefore does not contribute to the Gross National Product.”

Source : Hilda Scott (1984). “Working your way to the bottom: the feminization of poverty”, Pandora Pr
“Maybe love was superstition, a prayer we said to keep the truth of loneliness at bay. I tilted my head back. The stars looked like they were close together, when really they were millions of miles apart. In the end, maybe love just meant longing for something impossibly bright and forever out of reach.”

Source : Leigh Bardugo (2014). “Ruin and Rising”, p.234, Macmillan
“And to kill time while awaiting death, I smoke slender cigarettes thumbing my nose to the gods.”
“You can never earn in the outside world more than you earn in your own mind.”
“Didn't I warn you-Huh-Didn't I tell you one of em was going to win!?? So now, what do we do?”
“You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness.”
“I think probably one of the coolest things was when I went to play basketball at Rucker Park in Harlem. First of all, who would think that Larry the Cable Guy would go to Harlem to play basketball? And I was received like a rock star. It was amazing! There were people everywhere. There were guys walking by yelling, Git r done!”
“All sense of hearing and of sight enfold in the serene delight and quietude of sleep.”

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