Famous Quotes & Sayings

Irving Berlin

We joined the Navy to see the world, / And what did we see? We saw the sea.

Adam Gopnik

The sin of capitalism, perhaps, is to make wants feel like needs, to give to simple silly stuff the urgency of near-physical necessity: I must have it. The grace of capitalism is to make wants feel like hopes, so that material objects and stuff can feel like the possibility of something heroic and civic.