Gehoord In Het Quotes & Sayings

There were eruptions against the convict labor system in the South, in which prisoners were leased in slave labor to corporations, used thus to depress the general level of wages and also to break strikes. In the year 1891, miners of the Tennessee Coal Mine Company were asked to sign an "iron-clad contract": pledging no strikes, agreeing to get paid in scrip, and giving up the right to check the weight of the coal they mined (they were paid by the weight). They refused to sign and were evicted from their houses. Convicts were brought in to replace them. — Howard Zinn

For one crazy moment he had the notion of a vanished tribe of librarians, lost in the deep underground caverns of the Bodleian, a wild and savage tribe that fed on unwary travellers. — Lavie Tidhar

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men. — Marilyn Monroe

I would give my left arm to fly in one of those aeroplanes ... — Joseph Boyden

The trouble with free elections is, you never know who is going to win. — Leonid Brezhnev

It's amazing how long we put up with things we detest for the sake of a quiet life. — Tami Egonu

I am intrigued. I am fearless. — Lauren DeStefano

There is a Sunday conscience as well as a Sunday coat; and those who make religion a secondary concern put the coat and conscience carefully by to put on only once a week. — Charles Dickens

It's the digitals. Leith has that word he uses for the shift from analogs to digitals. That word he uses about eleven times an hour. — David Foster Wallace

Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage. — Ambrose Bierce

It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you. — Woodrow Wilson

I can't believe the pro-choicers attitude toward unborn children-to me it's the ultimate liberal cause, to defend those without a voice. — Michael Aston

Tradition is for the weak. — Winter Renshaw