Josene Delacruz Quotes & Sayings

If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs. — William Feather

Good men are sending the Bible to all parts of the world. Sermons are preached on behalf of fellows-creatures who are perishing in regions known only to us in name. And here, within reach of comparatively the slightest exertion; here, not many miles from churches and schools, and all the moral influences abounding in Christian society; here, in a country endowed with every advantage that God can bestow, are perishing, body and soul, our own countrymen: perishing too from disease, starvation and intemperance, and all the evils incidents to their unhappy condition. White men, Christian men, are driving them back; rooting out their very names from the face of the earth. Ah! these men can seek the country of the Sioux when money is to be gained: but how few care for the sufferings of the Dahcotahs! how few would give a piece of money, a prayer, or even a thought, towards their present and eternal good. — Mary H. Eastman

I'd sooner wear white shoes in February, drink unsweetened tea, and eat Miracle Whip instead of Duke's than utter the words 'you guys'. — Celia Rivenbark

Cognition requires going beyond the information given, to make bets and therefore to risk errors. — Gerd Gigerenzer

Tell her happiness is just practice," he said. "If only she acted happy, she would be happy. — Nancy Horan

Takes a while for a person to decide what they like best. Some folks never do decide. Always changing their mind, back and forth. — Robert Ferrigno

Marjorie Agosin proves the power of the word to transport us to the center of her humane and human vision. — Julia Alvarez

I've worked everywhere. I worked in a warehouse packing surf supplies, a restaurant washing dishes, in retail, and I was a 'sandwich artist' at Subway. — Margot Robbie

Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in. — James Reston

So-called intellectuals conceptualize love; fools just love.
Fools breathe air; intellectuals (so called) breathe ego. — Saurabh Sharma

By betrayal, I mean promising to be on your side, then being on somebody else's. — Jeanette Winterson

Most of us are aware of the sacrificial slaughter of Bear Sterns. Some people call it a bailout, but I call it a handout - a government handout to some of the richest people on Earth, paid for by American taxpayers. — Robert Kiyosaki

Now musing o'er the changing scene Farmers behind the tavern screen Collect; with elbows idly press'd On hob, reclines the corner's guest, Reading the news to mark again The bankrupt lists or price of grain. Puffing the while his red-tipt pipe He dreams o'er troubles nearly ripe, Yet, winter's leisure to regale, Hopes better times, and sips his ale. — John Clare