Gerard Butler Movie 43 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

90% of people are in jobs they hate and are bitter about their lives and scratching about for money. That's my worst nightmare. — Danny Dyer

Michael also hadn't realized just how extensive Gregory's power was, he had his fingers in everything: from oil production to technology to government legislation to dealing with rogue states and terrorists to control over stock markets and currencies. If Gregory had wanted to, he could've brought the world to its knees in less than a day, but that wouldn't do anyone any good if the world economy and various governments failed in an instant, it had to do be done gradually. Michael also realized how long it would take to dilute the influence of the United States and its Christian citizens, but he would do it, and it helped him that he started so early in college with the new technologies available to him. — Cliff Ball

The paper burns, but the words fly free. — Akiba Ben Joseph

She closed her eyes and wished that the earth would swallow her up. — Neil Gaiman

And just like in your house, your flat, or your cardboard box, if you put too much in there, you can't close the door anymore... Two — Tom Trott

LBJ held up Detroit as a model of what the Great Society could accomplish. He was right. — Mark Steyn

Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence. — Norman Podhoretz