Vladimir Stasov Quotes

#1. The thing that distinguishes permanent poverty is bad character.

James Cook

#2. In this hole lives the wicked king.

David Berkowitz

#3. Economics has been incurably growth-oriented and addicted to everybody growing richer, even at the cost of exhaustion of resources and pollution of the environment.

Kenneth E. Boulding

#4. This is why Sonja Lyubomirsky, a leader in the scientific study of well-being, has written that she prefers the phrase "creation or construction of happiness" to the more popular "pursuit," since "research shows that it's in our power to fashion it for ourselves."13

Shawn Achor

#5. Look, you think I like history because I'm fascinated with the possibilities, with how it could have happened, but you're wrong. I like it because it's the one thing we actually know in life. The past is the only thing we can count on. The present? The future? They're anyone's guess.

Rebecca Serle

#6. Because of course, for every revelation of weakness, there had to be an equal and opposite show of strength.

Jane Casey

#7. That morning each of us found a breaking point. Not only a physical barrier, but a point where determination, stamina and duty clashed and were overcome not so much by pain but by absurdity.

Stefan Kieszling

#8. I'm appalled at how many people my age, or even five or ten years younger, have no tangible memories of important history that happened when we were growing up.

Jello Biafra

#9. When that truth of alien intervention in our planet's affairs and our ongoing contact with an alien culture is finally revealed, it won't be frightening even though it will be a shock.

Philip J. Corso

#10. When I couldn't see the land out there, I forgot I wasn't at home. Sometimes I wished it was always night.

Chris Offutt

#11. You never really get the smell of burning flesh out of your nose entirely, no matter how long you live.

J.D. Salinger

#12. How much are you worth?
I have no idea. How much do you want?
Naw.I just want to know what you're worth. Over ten million?
Oh, my, yes.
Why are you doing it? How much better can you eat? What can you buy that you can't already afford?
The future, Mr. Gittes! The future!

Robert Towne

#13. Just 'cause you feel it doesn't mean it's there

Radiohead