Painful Index Quotes & Sayings

Religion does what philosophy could never do; it shows the equal dealings of Heaven to the happy and the unhappy, and levels all human enjoyments to nearly the same standard. It gives to both rich and poor the same happiness hereafter, and equal hopes to aspire after it. — Oliver Goldsmith

But a rise in the wages of labour would not equally affect commodities produced with machinery quickly consumed, and commodities produced with machinery slowly consumed. — David Ricardo

shoulders of a skeleton, and the five people — Derek Landy

But a good patriot, and a true politician, always considers how he shall make the most of the existing materials of his country. A disposition, to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman. Everything else is vulgar in the conception, perilous in the execution. — Edmund Burke

Innovations until now conceived by no one at all — Israel Kirzner

When we've all finished talking, there's something that never utters a word, but goes right down through the earth, plumb to the centre. — Aleister Crowley

For me, the most painful thing is the thought of shelves without books. This is the problem with the digital thing. I do not want to see it on electronic. I do not want to see all of those indices on Kindle. I don't want this physical object to disappear, because when it's there and it's present, it's continually suggesting new relationships in a way that an electronic index couldn't. — Jeanette Winterson

Heaven fashioned us of nothing; and we strive to bring ourselves to nothing. — John Webster

Hip-hop gave a generation a common ground that didn't require either race to lose anything; everyone gained. — Jay-Z

When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking. — Arthur Conan Doyle

A former locomotive man, Eugene Debs ran for president of the United States four times, the fourth time in 1920, when he was in prison. He said, "As long as there is a lower class, I'm in it. As long as there is a criminal element, I'm of it. As long as there's a soul in prison, I am not free." Some platform. — Kurt Vonnegut

Overtired five-year-olds needed to be handled like explosive devices. — Liane Moriarty

Mountains don't kill people, they just sit there ... — Ed Viesturs