Drudging Quotes & Sayings

The major problem of our time is the decay in the belief in personal immortality, and it cannot be dealt with while the average human being is either drudging like an ox or shivering in fear of the secret police ... How right [the working classes] are to realize that the belly comes before the soul, not in the scale of values but in point of time! — George Orwell

What happens to things is not important. Pray that your heart will be able to endure whatever happens to you in the future - your heart must continue to believe that the events in this world are not the be-all and end-all but simply transient unimportant variables. Beyond the everyday ins and outs of our lives, there is a greater purpose - a reason. — Matthew Quick

I think that the longer I look good, the better gay men feel. — Cher

He took his pain and turned it into something beautiful. Into something that people connect to. And that's what good music does. It speaks to you. It changes you. — Hannah Harrington

It's always easier to pretend you know something than it is to learn about it. It's always easier to be cute than it is to be rigorous. It is easier to talk trash than it is to practice the humility of the serious student. — Stan Goff

The unhappy man, who once has trail'd a pen, Lives not to please himself, but other men; Is always drudging, wastes his life and blood, Yet only eats and drinks what you think good. — John Dryden

Predictions are nice, if you can make them. But the essence of science lies in explanation, laying bare the fundamental mechanisms of nature. — M. Mitchell Waldrop

If you model yourself after Lawrence Fishburne, you can never go wrong. — Mac Miller

Men have a psychological need to show off their courage and strength. When he sees you talking to another guy, that instinct kicks in and he jumps to protect you and prove he's worthy of your love. — Helen Fisher

When humans come together with a true spirit of dealing with the mystery collaboratively, it's incredibly beautiful. — Ram Dass

My imagination would never have served me as it has, but for the habit of commonplace, humble, patient, daily, toiling, drudging attention — Charles Dickens

Extremism thrives amid ignorance and anger, intimidation and cowardice. — Hillary Clinton

I feel like a von Trapp," Ruby said between puffs, "But fatter, older and with absolutely no energy for singing. — Kate Morton

I have always believed that anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, can make anything he wants to make of himself. — Bill Shoemaker

If the milk industry can make their product seem sexy and increase consumer demand, there must be hope for music. — Gary Arnold

I just have so much love for my record label. — Katy Perry

In school we chanted, along with our teacher, I am the Captain of my fate, I am the Master of my soul, and meanwhile, within my own body, an anarchic insurrection had been launched by one of my privates- which I was helpless to put down! — Philip Roth