Downshifting Techniques Quotes

#1. In other words, despite the dogged liberal assumption - again, coming from Smith's legacy - that the existence of states and markets are somehow opposed, the historical record implies that exactly the opposite is the case. Stateless societies tend also to be without markets.

David Graeber

#2. (Rhino horns, which are made of keratin,

Elizabeth Kolbert

#3. I love to read the way people love to watch television.

Susan Sontag

#4. The study [of Revelation] instructs us not only about the storms to come, but how to endure and come through them with great victory.

Billy Graham

#5. Transactions that are too complex to explain to outsiders may well be too complex to be allowed to exist.

Frank Pasquale

#6. Big mouths and small brains make the strangest noises.

Orrin Woodward

#7. The focus of my administration is, if somebody decides to work abroad, then it has to be from choice as opposed to necessity.

Benigno Aquino III

#8. Well, that obviously wasn't good enough. Not by a long shot. Saying period at the end of something doesn't make it incontrovertible.

Hugh Laurie

#9. God's "nothings" are His most positive answers. We have to stay on God and wait. Never try to help God to fulfill His word.

Oswald Chambers

#10. My experience in childhood and adolescence of the subordinate role played by the female in a society run entirely by men had convinced me that I was not cut out to be a wife.

Rita Levi-Montalcini

#11. You're my favorite sister."
I snorted. "Gosh,I'd hate to be your unfavorite sister. I might not survive."
"Hey,Kate,you know I'm just teasing when I give you a hard time."
"Yeah,right,and the teasing just keeps me laughing.

Rachel Hawthorne

#12. The ritual of our daily lives permeate our very bodies.

Banana Yoshimoto