John D Spreckels Quotes & Sayings

We often hear, almost invariably, however, from superficial observers, that guilt can look like innocence. I believe it to be infinitely the truer axiom of the two that innocence can look like guilt. — Wilkie Collins

I couldn't help it," I said, knowing how lame that sounded. It was as bad as Angeline's "it's not my fault" mantra. — Richelle Mead

The difference between people isn't in their class, but in themselves. Only from the middle classes one gets ideas, and from the common people
life itself, warmth. You feel their hates and loves. — D.H. Lawrence

Don't complain about not getting a chance and then be unprepared when you finally do. — Joe Montana

Just know that it is impossible to feel joy while you are feeling cynicism. It is like wearing tight shoes and trying to mambo. — Suzanne Finnamore

When one has come to accept a certain course as duty he has a pleasant sense of relief and of lifted responsibility, even if the course involves pain and renunciation. It is like obedience to some external authority; any clear way, though it lead to death, is mentally preferable to the tangle of uncertainty. — Charles Horton Cooley

I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries. — Bette Davis

She'd have been gnawing her way through his bedroom walls to sink her avid fingers into his youthful flesh. — Margaret Atwood

Maurice was scandalized, horrified. He was shocked to the bottom of his suburban soul.... — E. M. Forster

Sitting down and weeping is what women have done for centuries, and it has done no good at all. Nor praying. God has given us the earth. He is not waiting in the next room, ready to fix it for us if we ruin it. If we do not care for it, no one will. On other worlds, other races of men perhaps do better than we have done. He cares for us, but he does not control what we do. — Sheri S. Tepper

No one should expect that any logical argument or any experience could ever shake the almost religious fervor of those who believe in salvation through spending and credit expansion. — Ludwig Von Mises