Seeing Lifes Bigger Picture Quotes

#1. You don't give your mum enough credit for raising you, Elle. Look at you. Teenage sweetheart with a sugar shell and strychnine centre. We might as well finish speaking the truth now.

Shirley Marr

#2. To prohibit a great people, however, from making all that they can of every part of their own produce, or from employing their stock and industry in the way that they judge most advantageous to themselves, is a manifest violation of the most sacred rights of mankind.

Adam Smith

#3. The author may not interpret. But he must tell why and how he wrote his book.

Umberto Eco

#4. I always thought Kurt Cobain was the perfect embodiment of the great alternative guitar player.

Billy Corgan

#5. The minimum wage isn't earned only by people working at fast food restaurants and in service industry work - the average income for positions like nursing assistants, preschool teachers and paramedics are all under $15.

David Rolf

#6. He looked at me with the tired, ignorant, slightly stupid expression that is so common in people who aren't used to seeing the broader picture in small things.

Jonas Karlsson

#7. They were going to work, I could see it in their eyes, they had that vacant wage-earner look. I

Karl Ove Knausgard

#8. A lot of the machines that Google is built on - commodity is the polite word for them - they're regular PCs and so they're not always the most reliable.

Jessica Livingston

#9. Do not believe the Judeo-Christian lie!

Gary Shteyngart

#10. The work that you were called to do is very important and precious

Sunday Adelaja

#11. I wanted everything good in the world for him; every dream he had, all of his secret plans, to come true. I suddenly was glad that Mona was his.

Hisham Matar

#12. Some people like danger and adventure, some like to be free of civilization, and some like to live by their wits. It was those special people who headed west.

Joy Hakim

#13. One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.

Simone De Beauvoir

#14. When I lose a match, I know that I lose on the court and not in life.

Gabriela Sabatini

#15. Inside the glittery, swanky cases-the 'modern art' materials that were all the rage at the time, Formica and glass and plastic-was something very unpleasant, very frightening, and looking absolutely real.

Paul Thek