#Taken Quotes #Men Quotes #Years Quotes
“Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger; I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful.”
“Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough.”
“I am opposed to the use of public funds for private education.”
“Tabloid discussion of bad children always blames baby-boomer liberals, careerist mothers and fashion-crazed Nathan Barley types who think it's all enormously funny. But the centre-leftish psycho-thinker Oliver James says it's all down to the Thatcher-and-after culture of turbo-capitalism, making people acquisitive and unsatisfied.”
“Your hair is an act of God.”
“A sense of humor...is superior to any religion so far devised.”
“Poverty is not a certain small amount of goods, nor is it just a relation between means and ends; above all it is a relation between people. Poverty is a social status. As such it is the invention of civilization. Socrates made the same point 2,400 years ago: "He is richest who is content with least, for contentment is the wealth of nature.”
“I don't like to channel surf. You guys like it, don't you. You guys like to change the channel. We like to change you.”
Amory Lovins Physicist
Chris Hedges Author
Clay Shirky Writer
James Hansen Professor
Michael Brune
Naomi Klein Author
Sue Halpern Writer
Tom Vanderbilt Journalist
Wendell Berry Novelist
