Swaths Of Land Quotes

#1. A vegan in a Hummer has a lighter carbon footprint than a beef eater in a Prius.

Michael Pollan

#2. The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace.

Ludwig Von Mises

#3. He seemed delighted to hear that she was fine. He was experimenting with being ardently sympathetic with everybody he met. He thought that might make the world a slightly more pleasant place to live in.

Kurt Vonnegut

#4. The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things.

Jean Piaget

#5. [The Great Migration] had such an effect on almost every aspect of our lives - from the music that we listen to to the politics of our country to the ways the cities even look and feel.

Isabel Wilkerson

#6. We have to fight the terrorists as if there were no rules and preserve our open society as if there were no terrorists.

Thomas Friedman

#7. Events are moving so fast and what in one moment seems impossible, the next is happening. I'm sure historians will, in time, provide theories and analysis, but for now I think most of us simply want the tide stemmed.

Lucy Powell

#8. Conall,"
"Aye, Alexia?" He looked up at her. Was that fear in his caramel eyes?
"I am going to take advantage of you," she said

Gail Carriger

#9. Some people have a phobia of midgets. They're, like, scared of them. I have the opposite - I see them, and I want to hold them down, cuddle them, be like, 'Come here, you little nugget. Who's your mommy now?' So cute!

Chelsea Handler

#10. My father was the only man I ever knew who really loved me unselfishly, who never used me for personal gain.

Jayne Mansfield

#11. The left is back, and it's the only path we have to get out of the spot to which the right has sunken us. Socialism builds and capitalism destroys.

Hugo Chavez

#12. Buying wine is a political act.

Jonathan Nossiter

#13. I'm probably not going to make sense for the next six months while I try to process the fact that I've gotten everything I've ever wanted.

Jamie McGuire

#14. This thing that haunts you, that never seems satisfied, the cravings in your soul that you are unable to satiate through all the success that the world can bring this is your soul screaming for God.

Erwin McManus

#15. Good storytelling appeals to me - good writing.

Sanaa Lathan