Hesiod Works Quotes & Sayings

In a way, art is a great way to release your love, fantasy, and desires. It's like a fetish. It's a comfortable way of excising a lot of your conscience. — Nicolas Winding Refn

Freedom is not constituted primarily of privileges but of responsibilities. — Albert Camus

Commerce is a noble profession, and Jews should get over any self-hatred they might harbor from contemplating the capitalist spirit of diaspora Judaism. — Steven Pinker

A man who works evil against another works it really against himself, and bad advice is worst for the one who devised it — Hesiod

There is nothing like scrubbing toilets for a living to make you question the choices you have made in life. — Raegan Butcher

To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of all the parts of ourselves which give us the sentiment of our existence. The man who has lived the most is not he who has counted the most years but he who has most felt life. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Fuck, this is gonna piss you off and then you aren't gonna let me stick my dick in you," he muttered.
"Do you have to be so crude?" I snapped.
"Have you met me?"
"Who says I'd let you do it anyway?"
"Babe," he replied in a low, rough voice, raising his eyebrow at me. — Joanna Wylde

It is from work that men are rich in flocks and wealthy, and a working man is much dearer to the immortals — Hesiod

Oh, you must be part of the underground no one's ever heard about."
"I don't belong to any group outside of my friends."
"That's a real bridge builder."
But it was a pretty hollow response. I wasn't part of any group either, and not just because my wiring was shot and I cried all the time, but because I had never met anyone in any political organization that I liked. — Vanessa Veselka

I do not oppose form, but only form as a goal. — Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

I am not in my gallery and neither do I hold your sigil. Will you speak to me? — Neil Gaiman

Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian. — Emma Goldman

Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say. — Will Durant

Gossip is mischievous, light and easy to raise, but grievous to bear and hard to get rid of. No gossip ever dies away entirely, if many people voice it: it too is a kind of divinity." Hesiod, Works and Days — Carole B. Shmurak

I'm gay and always have been, even when I was David Jones — David Bowie

Each day has the potential of being your best day. You decide what each day will bring. — Paige Rawl

All he really knew was that if he stayed here he would soon be the property of things that buzzed and snorted and hissed, that gave off fumes or stenches. In six months, he would be the owner of a large pink, trained ulcer, a blood pressure of algebraic dimensions, a myopia this side of blindness, and nightmares as deep as oceans and infested with improbable lengths of dream intestines through which he must violently force his way each night. — Ray Bradbury

I would hate to have parents who were always looking over my shoulder, reading my diary, checking my thoughts. I would hate to be exposed. And so, perhaps, when I say I long to be a pane of glass, I am lying. I long for partial obscurity at the same time that I long for someone to know me.
It is confusing and difficult to be me.
Sometimes I I need to cry in order to release the great welling sadness I feel in my head.
For this I need privacy. I do not want anyone to see me and ask why, almost as much as I would like to be comforted.
Somehow, without ever being present, Matthew has exposed all of this, brought it wriggling to the surface like worms. They gather there now, vaguely nostalgic for the dark. — Meg Rosoff