Pruitt Igoe Myth Quotes & Sayings

My parents were both union members, and I grew up hearing how important it was to empower workers and have fair labor practices. — Hilda Solis

Precious few are those who can live in the lap of luxury ... who can keep their moral, spiritual and financial equilibrium ... while balancing on the elevated tightrope of success. ... there is about one in a hundred who can dance to the tune of success without paying the piper named Compromise. — Charles R. Swindoll

I am so tired of rearranging my life around what the stupidest people might do. — Bill Maher

My neighbor has a circular driveway ... he can't get out. — Steven Wright

Neither will the horse be adjudged to be generous, that is sumptuously adorned, but the horse whose nature is illustrious; nor is the man worthy who possesses great wealth, but he whose soul is generous. — Pythagoras

The Dalai Lama was once asked for his favorite chant, and he said it was better not to have a favorite anything, which I think is a great thought. — Jeremy Piven

Stellar Plains, New Jersey, was a town that got mentioned whenever there was an article called "The Fifty Most Livable Suburbs in America." Unlike most suburbs, this one was considered progressive. Though the turnpike that ran through it was punctuated by carpet-remnant outlets and tire wholesalers, and even an unsettling, windowless store no one had ever been to, advertising DVDS AND CHINESE SPECIALTY ITEMS, Main Street was quaint and New Englandy, with a cosmopolitan slant. There was an excellent bookstore, Chapter and Verse, at a moment when bookstores around the country were making way for cell-phone stores. — Meg Wolitzer

Stand on your toe. That is what one said in Setswana if one hoped that something would happen. It was the same as the expression which white people used: cross your fingers. — Alexander McCall Smith

Europe is weird songs that would never make it in America. — Mike Myers

Harboring anger, hatred and resentment within you, is containing the venom within you. You are the only one affected ... — Jacqueline Ripstein

Take revenge, not by hurting someone, but by succeeding in life and helping those who were hurting you in the past. — Debasish Mridha

Without another word, I turn my back and start for my Jeep, wondering if he can hear how loudly he's made my heart pound.
"Okay then, see you after school, Jess. It's a date. We'll have some fun! Good luck on your afternoon final!"
He sounds like a stupid megaphone. When I don't answer and hunch my shoulders, his low laugh adds a trail of goose bumps coursing down my neck. — Anne Eliot

It's an incredible thing, how you can feel so taken care of by someone and yet feel, also, like you would die or do anything just for the chance to protect him back. — Lauren Oliver

You wouldn't want to land on the Moon and launch to Mars. That would be very inefficient. — Charles Duke

We deny the right of any portion of the species to decide for another portion what is and what is not their 'proper sphere.' The proper sphere for all human beings is the largest and highest which they are able to attain to. — Harriet Taylor Mill