Piero Sraffa Quotes

#1. No, pause! I just went into totally stupid girly virgin mode!!
~Takahashi Misaki

Shungiku Nakamura

#2. Nothing keeps people together like the exalted conviction that they alone are to be spared that eternal anguish of hell fire to which everyone else will be condemned.

Polly Toynbee

#3. Mama will be pleased to know that her least favourite daughter is to be married."
"To her least favourite man in the world, no doubt. I clearly recall how Mrs. Bennet barely tolerated my presence when I visited Longbourne.

P.O. Dixon

#4. He [Abram] believes that the PRESENT is the only real thing and everything else is an illusion
a distraction

Jennifer DeLucy

#5. In no other profession does the character and personality of a director play a more vital role in the development of young people than in the coaching of athletics.

Clair Bee

#6. Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance?

Frank Moore Colby

#7. They have perfected the art of giving us just enough freedom; just enough that when we are ready to snap, a little bone is offered and we roll over, belly up, comfortable and placated like a dog.

Ally Condie

#8. Venus favors the bold.

Ovid

#9. Whether ours shall be a government of laws and not of men is now for Congress and ultimately the American people.

Archibald Cox

#10. In economic theory the conclusions are sometimes less interesting than the route by which they are reached.

Piero Sraffa

#11. I do a lot of races for the cure for breast cancer.

Mary Ann Mobley

#12. I try to look at life carefully and reproduce life the way life is. It's a question of looking carefully at how it is. In life, you don't have total happiness. People always say that. But you don't have total sadness either, no matter what situation you are living in.

Marjane Satrapi

#13. Why are we so obsessed with celebrity culture? We have front-page news about divorces instead of front-page news about global warming, about women being abused, about children being abused. We're going on a downward spiral.

Heather Mills

#14. I'm not interested in whether I'm better than you; only whether I'm better than yesterday.

Mike Ormsby

#15. Whenever I want to stop myself being too Marxist about the future, I think about Shakespeare.

Paul Mason