Famous quotes containing the words rate, people and/or hire:
“If you could choose your parents,... we would rather have a mother who felt a sense of guiltat any rate who felt responsible, and felt that if things went wrong it was probably her faultwed rather have that than a mother who immediately turned to an outside thing to explain everything, and said it was due to the thunderstorm last night or some quite outside phenomenon and didnt take responsibility for anything.”
—D.W. Winnicott (20th century)
“America is the worlds living myth. Theres no sense of wrong when you kill an American or blame America for some local disaster. This is our function, to be character types, to embody recurring themes that people can use to comfort themselves, justify themselves and so on. Were here to accommodate. Whatever people need, we provide. A myth is a useful thing.”
—Don Delillo (b. 1926)
“She was so propre and sweete and likerous,
I dar wel sayn, if she hadde been a mous,
And he a cat, he wolde hire hente anoon.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?1400)