Hecatombs Quotes

#1. But capital not only lives upon labour. Like a master, at once distinguished and barbarous, it drags with it into its grave the corpses of its slaves, whole hecatombs of workers, who perish in the crises.

Karl Marx

#2. I, um ... I'm not perfect. I have a little Buddha belly.

Kristen Ashley

#3. I had this temp receptionist job in New York, and I kind of hated it, and in the morning I would come out of the subway and just walk along the New York streets with all these people around me and kind of sing to myself. Like, 'She's gonna make it!'

Elizabeth Meriwether

#4. Maturity is when you start feeling the motion of zaman (time) as if it is a sensuous caress. p.216

Fatema Mernissi

#5. I'm looking for a bunch of new tchotchkes that represent the new part of my life.

Sally Field

#6. The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom.

Oriana Fallaci

#7. Here's a QBQ twist for all of us: God, grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know - it's me!

John G. Miller

#8. The true is inimitable, the false untransformable.

Robert Bresson

#9. Things are coming to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade private life.

Lord Melbourne

#10. Larry Hart and Dick Rodgers were both bright Jewish boys from Manhattan who at one point or another went to Columbia, but there the similarity in their backgrounds ends.

Robert Gottlieb

#11. She stood, as it were, with her face to God and her back to the people, waiting to receive His word for the 'chose people.' She had a vision of holy living. She would not deviate from that no matter how well-established, rational, and practical the ways of older missions seemed to be.

Elisabeth Elliot

#12. Don't get yourself in certain circumstances or instances, because it's not a good feeling to be sitting in that chair where you've got 12 people that are in control of your life. You have an opportunity to be in control of your life for yourself by the decisions that you make.

Sean Combs

#13. I've still kind of maintained a low profile but people still kind of recognize you and will come up to you, and that's taken a bit of getting used to.

Leona Lewis

#14. I will go peaceably and firmly to the Catholic Church: for if Faith is so important to our salvation, I will seek it where true Faith first began, seek it among those who received it from God Himself.

Elizabeth Ann Seton