David Graeber Quotes
To tell the history of debt, then, is also necessarily to reconstruct how the language of the marketplace has come to pervade every aspect of human life—even to provide the terminology for the moral and religious voices ostensibly raised against it.
Quotes to Explore
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Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
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I'm never away from my boys for more than three days.
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Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed and Strummer, but it's kiddie music.
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I designed all the characters, anyway, and Frank Doyle was doing all the writing. I didn't have any more input on what direction they were going to go with Josie.
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I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.
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Let's be honest, the physical attracts me first. Then if you get to know the man's mind and soul and heart, that's icing on the cake.
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For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large, vague, unlimited, unknown.
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You don't do things right once in a while. You do things right all the time.
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For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.
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I have many debates now with friends on the changes, and the continuing confusion over bringing up your children, instilling values, letting them make the right choices.
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I think I was once given cocaine but I sneezed so it didn't go up my nose. In fact, it may have been icing sugar.
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One of the reasons people sell out so quickly is because even the talented think they're frauds. It's a culture that doesn't encourage people to believe in the work they do. You're told to second-guess yourself all the time. That's where I think a little hostility and arrogance can save you. And I've never been lacking for either.
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To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.
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The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.
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Happiness is when you love who you are and you are able to accept yourself and others.
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To tell the history of debt, then, is also necessarily to reconstruct how the language of the marketplace has come to pervade every aspect of human life—even to provide the terminology for the moral and religious voices ostensibly raised against it.
