Almoners Box Quotes & Sayings

Losing your job is like having your identity stolen, like having what defined you run through a paper shredder. After a while the despair gets you, and it gets you good. — Eric Jerome Dickey

The struggle between centralization and decentralization is at the core of American history. — Anthony Gregory

Are we nothing but heel skin and blisters? Traveling a straight line to the end of our lives? — Ramona Ausubel

Black Tragedy lets slip her grim disguise and shows you laughing lips and roguish eyes; but when, unmasked, gay Comedy appears, how wan her cheeks are, and what heavy tears! — Thomas Bailey Aldrich

I am only astonished that, while so many women have intelligent things to say and so many men are still unknown, a publisher cared to print such a little book, and at such a price. That confirms what Schopenhauer reveals to us, among other truths: philosophy is a matter of death. A philosopher living and thinking life is a priori suspect in our philosophical culture. — Luce Irigaray

Why does anger makes people pretty? Rage doesn't. Rage makes you ugly, but a little anger, that just seems to add spice. One of nature's cruelties, or maybe it's to keep us from killing each other more often. — Laurell K. Hamilton

But I gotta say, oh, baby, oh baby, why is this so familiar? Just met her, already feel like I know the real her. — Drake

One has to have illustrated links with the fair to middling ranks of reality I should think in order for something like Christmas to really work out otherwise it just seems odd and sort of accusatory and one feels turbulent and extrinsic and can't wait for it all to slump backwards into its shambolic velvet envelope and shuffle off down the hill. — Claire-Louise Bennett

The woman who works for a dollar a day has as much right as any other human being to say what the conditions of her work should be. — Helen Keller

Time is a ribbon, a delicate organdy, so thin that you can see through it to the layer of time below and the layer above. Moments overlapping, lying on top of each other. — Laura Whitcomb

For us there is little to say. After all, we know that death belongs to life, that it is unavoidable and comes when it wants. — Katie Roiphe