October Quotes - Page 12

• What would've happened, do you think, had the government not intervened in October 2008? The catastrophe to the economy would've been absolutely unbelievable. And yet classical economists say, "Oh, well, no, it would've adjusted perfectly happily, a few weeks of pain and then everything would've gone on as before, without a banking system left." And that's what makes it so maddening, that these bankers are back saying it was all the government's fault. The government saved their skins. It didn't want to, but it needed to save their skins in order to save the rest of us.

  Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky

  Pain, Thinking, Skins

  Source: bigthink.com

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• No one revolution up to now has brought all that was expected of it by the masses. Hence the inevitability of a certain disillusionment, of a lowering of the activity of the vanguard, and consequently, of the growing importance of the rearguard. [Joseph] Stalin's faction has raised itself on the wave of reaction against the October revolution.

  Leon Trotsky

  October Revolution, Growing, Wave

  Source: www.marxists.org

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• She raised a sharp eyebrow at him. "Vlad, no offense, but look at you. If you're not a vampire, you're clearly the most anemic goth I've ever seen."... "We believed you. Because that's what friends do." pg267 October to Vlad

  Heather Brewer

  Eyebrows, Vampire, Looks

  Heather Brewer (2011). “Twelfth Grade Kills #5: The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod”, p.162, Penguin

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• Okay, first thing tomorrow we hit the streets around Taccone's place. Somebody saw something.' 'I got it covered.' 'The DiMarcos might be in town.' 'Actually, they're in jail.' 'All seven of them?' Hale shrugged. 'It was an interesting October.

  Ally Carter

  Jail, Interesting, Might

  Ally Carter (2011). “Heist Society”, p.44, Hachette UK

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• Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.

  Nelson Algren

  Spring, Cities, Chicago

  "Chicago: City on the Make" by Nelson Algren, University of Chicago Press, Ch. 7, 1987.

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• The stillness of October gold
  Went out like beauty from a face.

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

  Autumn, Gold, Faces

  Edwin Arlington Robinson (2014). “Robinson: Poems”, p.156, Everyman's Library

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• It was one of those perfect New York October afternoons, when the explosion of oranges and yellows against the bright blue sky makes you feel like your life is passing through your fingers, that you've felt this autumn-feeling before and you'll probably get to feel it again, but one day you won't anymore, because you'll be dead.

  Sarah Dunn

  New York, Autumn, Blue

  Sarah Dunn (2010). “Secrets To Happiness”, p.23, Hachette UK

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• On a cold, fretful afternoon in early October, 1872, a hansom cab drew up outside the offices of Lockhart and Selby, Shipping Agents, in the financial heart of London, and a young girl got out and paid the driver. She was a person of sixteen or so--alone, and uncommonly pretty. She was slender and pale, and dressed in mourning, with a black bonnet under which she tucked back a straying twist of blond hair that the wind had teased loose. She had unusually dark brown eyes for one so fair. Her name was Sally Lockhart; and within fifteen minutes, she was going to kill a man.

  Philip Pullman

  Girl, Eye, Heart

  Philip Pullman (2017). “The Ruby in the Smoke: A Sally Lockhart Mystery”, p.7, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I'm sitting with six and a half billion dollars we're going to use to close the Mars-Wrigley deal on October 6. I've got to hand over that six and a half billion on October 6. Now, I have to be very careful about who I leave it in between now and then, because they're expecting that he show up.

  Warren Buffett

  Hands, Dollars, Sitting

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". "Charlie Rose", www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• My name is October Christine Daye; I live in a city by the sea where the fog paints the early morning, parking is more precious than gold, and Kelpies wait for the unwary on street corners. Neither of the worlds I live in is quite mine, but no one can take them away from me. I did what had to be done, and I think I may finally be starting to understand what's important. It's all about finding the way home, wherever that is. I plan on finding out. I have time.

  Mira Grant

  Morning, Home, Thinking

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• I can love October in September. September doesn’t care.

  Dean Koontz

  Care, September, I Can

  Dean Koontz (2007). “The Darkest Evening of the Year: A Novel”, p.11, Bantam

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• Hello?” I peered into the shadows. Two green circles flashed in the dark. I yelped, jumping backward and pressing myself against the wall. “And may I wish a very good morning to you, too, October.” The voice was amused, underscored by a chuckle like thick cream. “What happened? Did the prettiest little princess miss her carriage home?

  Mira Grant

  Morning, Wall, Princess

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• It is one of the ironies of this strange century that the most lasting results of the October revolution, whose object was the global overthrow of capitalism, was to save its antagonist, both in war and in peace - that is to say, by providing it with the incentive, fear, to reform itself after the Second World War, and, by establishing the popularity of economic planning, furnishing it with some of the procedures for its reform

  Eric Hobsbawm

  War, October Revolution, Reform

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• Given that we are passing the climate change bill, which is based on the supposition that the climate is getting warmer, let me point out that it is now snowing outside, in October.

  Peter Lilley

  Snow, Bills, Climate

  "Peter Lilley: 'I am a global lukewarmist' and other quotes" by Lauren Niland, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2012.

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• What is it that binds us to this place as to no other? It is not the well, or the bell, or the stone walls, or the crisp October nights or the memory of dogwoods blooming. Our loyalty is not only to William Richardson Davie though we are proud of what he did 200 years ago today. Nor even to Dean Smith, though we are proud of what he did last March. No, our love for this place is based on the fact that it is as it was meant to be, the University of the people.

  Charles Kuralt

  Loyalty, Wall, Memories

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• The October Crisis was not just a crisis of the financial sector, but one arising from an ill-informed and erroneous mindset that still infects businesses in general and requires correction.

  Chip Pitts

  Financial, Mindset, Crisis

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The ultimate cause of the October Crisis was the ideological embrace of Milton Friedman's warped but still dominant view that "the only social responsibility of business is to make a profit for its shareholders," and until that socially and economically counterproductive - and empirically, legally and ethically inaccurate - view is corrected, we will continue to have the increasing and more intense crises of global capitalism that we have seen recur with ever greater frequency over the past forty years. Sadly but clearly, the lessons have still not been learned.

  Chip Pitts

  Responsibility, Past, Intense

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• In the appendix to my History of the Russian Revolution I give a detailed and documented study of the ideas of the Bolshevik party on the October revolution. This study, I hope, will make it impossible in the future to ascribe to [Vladimir] Lenin the theory of Socialism in a single country.

  Leon Trotsky

  Country, Party, Ideas

  Source: www.marxists.org

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• No one would rather hunt woodcock in October than I, but since learning of the sky dance I find myself calling one or two birds enough. I must be sure that, come April, there be no dearth of dancers in the sunset sky.

  Aldo Leopold

  Sunset, Sky, Two

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.34, Oxford University Press, USA

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• It's a funny kind of month, October. For the really keen cricket fan it's when you discover that your wife left you in May.

  Denis Norden

  Baseball, Wife, Fans

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• What is striking is that from almost from the very beginning of certainly by September and October of 1963, as the book was being constructed, that [Alex] Haley was vetting - asking questions to the publisher and to the publisher's attorney regarding many of the things that Malcolm X was saying. He was worried that he would not have a book that would have the kind of sting that he wanted.

  Manning Marable

  Book, Asking Questions, Alex

  "The Undiscovered Malcolm X: Stunning New Info on the Assassination, His Plans to Unite the Civil Rights and Black Nationalist Movements & the 3 'Missing' Chapters from His Autobiography". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. February 21, 2005.

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• When called to the Council of the Twelve, October 4, 1963, he said in the Salt Lake Tabernacle: I think of a little sister, a French-Canadian sister, whose life was changed by the missionaries as her spirit was touched. As she said good-by to me and my wife in Quebec, she said, "President Monson, I may never see the Prophet. I may never hear the Prophet. But President, far better, now that I am a member of this Church, I can obey the Prophet."

  Thomas S. Monson

  Sister, Thinking, Lakes

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• This year I invested in pumpkins. They've been going up the whole month of October and I got a feeling they're going to peak right around January. Then bang! That's when I'll cash in.

  Homer

  Years, Feelings, Cash

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• The Republican Party has moved so far to the right, you can't recognize Mitt Romney. What Mitt Romney will appear in October? Mitt Romney has changed positions more often than a pornographic movie queen.

  Arlen Specter

  Queens, Party, Republican

  "Specter makes X-rated Romney joke" by Tim Mak, www.politico.com. March 28, 2012.

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• I am tired of the litany
  of months, September October
  I am tired of the way the seasons
  keep changing, mimicking
  the seasons of the flesh
  which are real and finite.

  Linda Pastan

  Real, Tired, Flesh

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