Classic Orwell Quotes & Sayings

Fewer people working means permanently lower tax revenues. — Christina Romer

LIFE IS A SERIES OF RUDE AWAKENINGS — Andrew Dazz

That's one problem I have. Jews when they get successful they will help their people and some of the African-Americans - maybe I'll get in trouble again - they don't want to help anybody, — Donald Sterling

No one I met at this time
doctors, nurses, practicantes, or fellow-patients
failed to assure me that a man who is hit through the neck and survives it is the luckiest creature alive. I could not help thinking that it would be even luckier not to be hit at all. — George Orwell

In the late '30's when I was in college, physics - and in particular, nuclear physics - was the most exciting field in the world. — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

All over this nation, all over this world there are people going to church today and they say they are believers, but until you can take what you've been taught and bring it to the place you gave up - you will never be the radical believer that you need to be for the times in which we live. — T.D. Jakes

Dan bit back a growl. No smooth-talking, barely-shaving stripling was going to charm her away. She needed a mature man, one with the skills and experience to protect her, provide for her. Hands balled into fists, Dan inhaled through his nose in an effort to stem the rising tide of jealousy that nearly had him shouting at her again. Maybe he shouldn't be in such a hurry to send her back to Richland. Where younger men named Clarence waited in the wings. — Karen Witemeyer

We are part of the universe that has developed a remarkable ability: We can hold an image of the world in our minds. We are matter contemplating itself. — Sean Carroll

The good news is your surgery was a success and now you look like a movie star! The bad news is that movie star is Drew Carey! — Ryan Stiles

We have seen SARS stopped dead in its tracks. — Gro Harlem Brundtland

The deep-laden boats pull in against the coast where the canneries dip their tails into the bay. The figure is advisedly chosen, for if the canneries dipped their mouths into the bay the canned sardines which emerge from the other end would be metaphorically, at least, even more horrifying. — John Steinbeck

And I'm here to tell you, the reaction that I'm getting around the country, people are sick and tired of this word in Washington, compromise. This is why nothing ever gets done. — Herman Cain

For that is the people's verdict, but wise men on the whole reject the people's decrees. — Seneca.

Bianca, whore is just a cheap word people use to cut each other down," he said. His voice softer. "It makes them feel better about their own mistakes. Using words like that is easier than really looking into the situation. I promise you, you're not a whore."
I looked at him, into his warm gray eyes, and suddently understood what he was trying to tell me. The message hidden beneath the words.
You're not alone. — Kody Keplinger

Currently our society tends to churn out individuals that tend to ask the system, "What are you going to give or do for me?" We see this attitude all around us. Self-serving individuals concerned with their personal comfort and welfare beyond the norm. These individuals expect the system to take care of them at all costs. When I run across one of these individuals, it makes me want to puke. This attitude is damn near a form of communism. — Paul R. Howe

That's family in a nutshell. You take them as they are, and you love them, no matter what. — Darien Gee