Monetised Quotes

#1. Without being overtly political about it, if people with severe disabilities are calculated in societal terms purely as a monetised unit, in terms of how much they cost in terms of care, you lose an important sense of who they are and the effect they have.

Rory Kinnear

#2. We need to learn how to want what we have NOT to have what we want in order to get steady and stable Happiness

Dalai Lama XIV

#3. My husband used to say that scars were like tattoos but with better stories." "I

Gayle Forman

#4. The 'We Have Overcome' generation has run out of intellectual creativity but refuses to leave the political stage.

Manning Marable

#5. I'd like to do music in the same way - in a witty way. People think of YG artists as rarely appearing on TV but I'd like to make Big Bang fans happy through various mediums.

Seungri

#6. Oblonsy was fond of a pleasant joke, and sometimes liked to perplex a simple-minded man by observing that if you're going to be proud of your ancestry, why stop short at Prince Rurik and repudiate your oldest ancestor - the ape?

Leo Tolstoy

#7. Don't tell me how rocky the sea is, just bring the darn ship in. - Lou Holtz

Lou Holtz

#8. She realized in an instant that being around him awakened her, stirring the sediment that had long ago settled at the bottom of her well. He made her feel a part of him, of something larger, and somehow more alive.

Luna Saint Claire

#9. These views were voiced by the school of 'optessimists', i.e. philosophers who derived optimism for the future from a pessimistic appraisal of the present. The 21st Voyage, The Star Diaries

Stanislaw Lem

#10. Our own system of trying to guess what or how much a child's mind can assimilate results in cross purposes, misunderstanding, disappointments, anger and a general loss of harmony.

Jean Liedloff

#11. If you are determined to live life to the full, if you are determined to conquer in life, if you are determined to win in life, if you are determined to soar in life, you must not shy away from this particular demand. Life demands death.

Sunday Adelaja

#12. I think each negotiation should be based on what's the best decision - taking everything into account, not taking one thing into account.

Tony La Russa

#13. The fashion world has been great. We started Apple Bottoms about seven years ago; it's interesting to be able to create something from your perspective, for your fans and support. It's a little different for me, because about 70% of my fans are females.

Nelly

#14. Sound investing can make you very wealthy if you're not in too big a hurry

Warren Buffett

#15. Even if the past exists as an independent reality outside the minds of those who write about it, we can never know that reality. Historians and writers of historical fiction attempt to fill in the gaps, to say: 'This is how it might have been.'

John Zanetti

#16. I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.

Don Cheadle