Funeral Service Talks Quotes & Sayings

The person who profits from this law will complain bitterly, defending his acquired rights. He will claim that the state is obligated to protected and encourage his particular industry; that this procedure enriches the state because the protected industry is thus able to spend more and to pay higher wages to the poor workingmen.
Do not listen to this sophistry by vested interests. The acceptance of these arguments will build legal plunder into a whole system. In fact, this has already occurred. The present-day delusion is an attempt to enrich everyone at the expense of everyone else; to make plunder universal under the pretense of organizing it. — Frederic Bastiat

So, for the shoddiness of needs, are shoes made out of last year's hide. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Mathematics is a body of knowledge, but it contains no truths. — Morris Kline

The idea of being a show runner was very attractive to me, to create and control something. — Nic Pizzolatto

When I started on 'Roseanne,' it was a great achievement for me at the time. But I wasn't a part of building it; I wasn't a carpenter in creating that juggernaut. — Johnny Galecki

People nowadays like to be together not in the old-fashioned way of, say, mingling on the piazza of an Italian Renaissance city, but, instead, huddled together in traffic jams, bus queues, on escalators and so on. It's a new kind of togetherness which may seem totally alien, but it's the togetherness of modern technology. — J.G. Ballard

I have a couple of dozen books on my reader: ideal for a long trip or an afternoon waiting at the medical clinic. It's flexible. — Barbara Hambly

History ... a release from the troublesome promiscuous present. — Tod Wodicka