Oreisi Quotes & Sayings

No business
which depends for existence on paying *less than living wages* to its
workers has any right to continue in this country ... By living wages, I
mean more than the bare subsistence level - I mean the wages of a decent
living. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

When I started painting 17 years ago, I never imagined that anyone would look at my work or buy my pieces. But now I do about 14 exhibitions each year. — Jane Seymour

No'm he aint ill. Not unless laziness is a sickness. If it is, I'd say he's close to dying tomorrow. — Morgan Llywelyn

Smoking had come to be an important punctuation mark in the long sentence of a day on the road. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Pay the hired worker his wages before his sweat dries — Hazrat Muhammad P.B.U.H

In my fiction, there's a lot that's borrowed from music. It's never like I'm taking a lyric, but more the mood of a particular song. 'The Boy Detective Fails' was like listening to 'Eleanor Rigby' by The Beatles, this very melancholy-but-poppy song. — Joe Meno

Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that — George Bernard Shaw

I never had a book get angry or yell at me, never had a book show disappointment in me or consider me stupid because I didn't understand a line or needed to reread a paragraph or didn't know a word, never had a book mock me, never had a book turn its back on me or slap me in the face or fire me from reading it or decide it was in love with a faster, more intelligent, handsomer reader, I never even had a book get bored with me, or question my logic, I never had a book look suddenly crestfallen because I shut it and left it on its own, I've never met a book too shy to come into the bathroom with me or under the covers, I never met a book that refused to read me to sleep. — Mark Frutkin

In times of war, don't touch the guns; stay as a human! Always refuse to be a killer! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available. — James M. Beggs