Itinerante Quotes & Sayings

Never underestimate the will of a creature who begins to die at birth. — Lyn Benedict

There is something beyond the grave; death does not end all, and the pale ghost escapes from the vanquished pyre. — Propertius

no problem can be solved until an individual assumes the responsibility for solving it. — M. Scott Peck

The one who tries to get something for nothing generally winds up getting nothing for something. — Napoleon Hill

We have built as a government something called the National Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force, NCIJTF, where 19 federal agencies sit together and divide up the work. See the threat, see the challenge, divide it up and share information. — James Comey

Honesty is an active verb, not a passive noun. Go out of your way to be truthful, beginning with the things that you say to yourself. — Joe Tye

Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more. — A. E. Hotchner

I'm sorry, but were you dropped on your head as an infant? — Kathryn Stockett

My guess is that the indignities imposed on so many low-wage workers - the drug tests, the constant surveillance, being "reamed out" by managers - are part of what keeps wages low. If you're made to feel unworthy enough, you may come to think that what you're paid is what you are actually worth. It is hard to imagine any other function for workplace authoritarianism. Managers may truly believe that, without their unremitting efforts, all work would quickly grind to a halt. That is not my impression. While I encountered some cynics and plenty of people who had learned to budget their energy, I never met an actual slacker or, for that matter, a drug addict or thief. On the contrary, I was amazed and sometimes saddened by the pride people took in jobs that rewarded them so meagerly, either in wages or in recognition. Often, in fact, these people experienced management as an obstacle to getting the job done as it should be done. — Barbara Ehrenreich