Famous Quotes & Sayings

Che Guevara

I have sworn before a picture of the old and mourned comrade Stalin that I won’t rest until I see these capitalist octopuses annihilated.

Charles Fort

Every science is a mutilated octopus. If its tentacles were not clipped to stumps, it would feel its way into disturbing contacts.

Michael Symon

On 'Chopped,' the time goes down a bit and there are several ingredients, usually one that makes no sense whatsoever with the rest of the ingredients. So it gets you out of your culinary comfort zone a little bit. Like we had octopus and cheese paired up with each other.

Matthew Engel

Derek Randall bats like an octopus with piles

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates

Mike Rowe

There's really not a difference between an octopus and, like, a giant pile of snot.

Marcel Proust

But to ask pity of our body is like discoursing in front of an octopus, for which our words can have no more meaning than the sound of the tides, and with which we should be appalled to find ourselves condemned to live.

Norton Juster

Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?

Ellen Hopkins

Crank, You See isn't any ordinary monster. It's like a giant octopus, weaving its tentacles not just around you, but through you, squeezing not hard enough to kill you, but enough to keep you from reeling until you try to get away. Try, and you hunger for it grasping clutch, the way its tendrils prop you up, your need intensifying exponentially every minute you refuse to admit its being (p.469)

Barbara Tuchman

No economic activity was more irrepressible [in the 14th century] than the investment and lending at interest of money; it was the basis for the rise of the Western capitalist economy and the building of private fortunes-and it was based on the sin of usury.

Ken Tower

A capitalist economy goes through cycles, and 2000 was the peak in the latest cycle, which had lots of similarities to the 1960s and the 1920s. Now we're somewhere in this sort of troublesome period like the 1970s.

Bill Haynie

It's just not, in my opinion, fair competition. In this free world and capitalist society, you can't get something you're willing to pay for.

Mark Heesen

It's not like a venture capitalist is going to see a payback immediately or even in the next couple years.

Tom Pickard

This organization that we disrupted today embraced the American capitalist ideal and would sell any drug that would turn a profit and did not discriminate in its dealings with any other drug organization.

Mark Heesen

A venture capitalist would rather work with three large institutional investors who give him $50 million rather than 10 individuals who give him $5 million each.

Somsak Kosaisuk

Office workers should unite and stop work for one day in order to salvage the nation dominated by the capitalist dictatorial regime.

Roger Tamraz

Thank God we're a capitalist society and there's nothing wrong with running after money.

James Tobin

The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters.

Sergei Udaltsov

We will not leave this place until our comrades are free. We are the power here. We are the power.

Leon Trotsky

Everyone has the right to be stupid on occasion, but Comrade Macdonald abuses the privilege.

Alex Berenson

Soldiers willingly, sometimes foolishly, risk their own lives to keep their comrades out of enemy hands.

Vladimir Mayakovsky

Comrade life,/ let us/ march faster,/ March/ faster through what's left/ of the five-year plan.

Jacob Zuma

We are united as ANC. Comrade Msholozi is a disciplined cadre of the movement, therefore we'll show that support today and tomorrow and forever,

Marcos Pontes

The training has been really quite strict, demanding a lot from every person, every crew member. But we have excellent comrades where who are always helping me, excellent instructors, as well.

Henry Williamson

I must return to my old comrades of the Great War - to the brown, the treeless, the flat and grave-set plain of Flanders - to the rolling, heat-miraged downlands of the Somme - for I am dead with them, and they live in me again.

Ernesto Guevara

If you tremble indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.

Alexander Dubcek

In the first day of the Soviet Army's arrival, I and the other comrades were isolated and then found ourselves here, not knowing anything... I can only conjecture what could have happened.