Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim Jackson

Our own relentless search for novelty and social status locks us into an iron cage of consumerism. Affluence has itself betrayed us.

Margaret Drabble

Affluence was, quite simply, a question of texture ... The threadbare carpets of infancy, the coconut matting, the ill-laid linoleum, the utility furniture ... had all spoken of a life too near the bones of subsistence, too little padded, too severely worn.

Charles Jencks

The rule seems to be that there are no absolutes, that what is rare is prized. Thus, in times of relative affluence, thin models become dominant.

Dennis Prager

For the Left, affluence is won, not earned.

Gary Snyder

True affluence is not needing anything.

Erich Fromm

The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have.

Indira Gandhi

The greatest of all contraceptives is affluence.

P. J. O'Rourke

Modern elites live in bubbles of liberal affluence like Ann Arbor, Brookline, the Upper West Side, Palo Alto, or Chevy Chase. These places used to have impoverished neighborhoods nearby, but the poor people got chased out by young singles living in group homes, hipsters, and urban homesteading gay couples.

Francis Schaeffer

Things, things, things. Always more things, and success is seen as the abundance of things.

Takeo Hiranuma

It betrayed the public's trust over nuclear energy,

Bronson Arroyo

I don't feel like they betrayed me. It's just a tough situation. I'm disappointed. I felt like I had done enough around here that they would keep me.

Sandro Veronesi

Heads will fly all over the place, others will explode by themselves, everyone will have their chance to betray, and those who don't betray will be betrayed.

William Dean Howells

If ever the public was betrayed by its press, it's ours.

Paul Themba

Our biggest challenge is that Zimbabweans have never experienced any form of free and fair elections and have had 25 years of broken promises and betrayed dreams,

William Boetcker

Your greatness is measured by your kindness; your education and intellect by your modesty; your ignorance is betrayed by your suspicions and prejudices, and your real caliber is measured by the consideration and tolerance you have for others.

Cao Cao

I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.

Charles Palliser

To exist is to be betrayed, since we exist for others only by virtue of what we betray of ourselves to them.

Elizabeth Bowen

One's sentiments -- call them that -- one's fidelities are so instinctive that one hardly knows they exist: only when they are betrayed or, worse still, when one betrays them does one realize their power.

Paul Wolfowitz

He's always been excruciatingly careful, which is ironic in his situation.

Rob Corddry

I remember interviewing someone I actually felt bad for, and therefore didn't want to take an ironic stance against him. It actually turned out to be a really funny piece.

Raymond Chandler

Some days I feel like playing it smooth. Some days I feel like playing it like a waffle iron.

Ronnie Wood

We got touring with the Stones, and people were trying to keep up with Keith. He's like a human machine with a constitution of iron, and they all thought they could do the same.

Tom Brennan

The irony was not lost on me, and it better not be lost on LSU.

Friedrich Schiller

Chains of iron or of silk-both are chains.

Lu Xun

But if a few awake, you can't say there is no hope of destroying the iron house.

Robert Newman

The irony is in many places the railroads are laying track where they removed it over the past two decades.

Eric Idle

Nobody gets irony anymore, as we are now living in the post-ironic age. Once George Bush gets a library, our irony is dead.

Barbara Castle

I think we're going to get a lot of unrest showing itself in all sorts of demonstrations, and you never quite know what would come out of it.

Chris Byrne

I think this will really help. Look at what Target has done in establishing itself as a resource for consumers. Toys R Us is struggling to become a destination for toys so it makes perfect sense.

Dave Thomas

It is important to us that it had proven itself in the FRC market.

Rob McClure

I was a bit of a goofball. I was always silly. I think that lends itself to being an actor.

Joseph Campbell

If you realize what the real problem is - losing yourself - you realize that this itself is the ultimate trial.

Michael Leunig

If you know anything about ducks, you know a baby duck will imprint itself on you. It misses its mother.

Terry Teachout

Instrumental music is nonverbal and thus radically ambiguous. It doesn't lend itself to what might be called content-oriented analysis, though plenty of intellectuals have tried to analyze it in precisely that way.

John Lewandowski

In our mind, we said, 'Let the legal process work itself out,' and that's until the sentencing stage.

John Thornton

I know the perception is that we're struggling and Pittsburgh is peaking. That's where the underdog role comes from. But I don't think this team sees itself as an underdog.

Willie Nelson

How would you like to bite that in the ass, develop lock jaw and be dragged to death?

Rainbow Rowell

God, his chin. She wanted to make an honest woman of his chin. She wanted to lock it down.

John McLaughlin

Everyone can lock into the rhythm on a tune. It's organic in nature. It connects the band as a whole and connects the band to the audience.

Lynn Flewelling

A crafty nightrunner died of late, And found himself at Bilairy’s Gate. He stood outside and refused to knock Because he meant to pick the lock.

Bill Gates

See the clock only when you have No work.... Don't see the clock when you are working.... Clock is a lock for success

Wendell Berry

There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty.

Eric Hoffer

To the old, the new is usually bad news.

Mike Short

We're not going to get them just because they're a novelty item. We have to be responsible with our budget.

Ovid

Novelty in all things is charming.

Pliny the Elder

Human nature craves novelty.

Pliny the Elder

Human nature is fond of novelty.

Terence McKenna

Ultimate novelty must be a situation where all boundaries are dissolved.

Madeleine M. Kunin

If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.

Heinrich Heine

Newness hath an evanescent beauty.

Laurie Fisher

He's got a tremendous work-rate and is relentless at the breakdown.

Geoff Ogilvy

It wasn't relentless waiting, but it was enough to be waiting.

Herb Sendek

He's an outstanding player. He's a threat to get a double-double every time out. He is especially relentless on the glass.

P. James

My style of play is to attack. Relentless attack.

Helen Mirren

A woman with knowledge is something that frightens the status quo quite a lot.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

The status quo is working.