Shipler The Working Poor Quotes & Sayings

I really wanted to take her photo, so I walked up to the nearest adult and asked, 'Does she belong to you?' Suddenly the music stopped, and I heard: 'I belong to myself! — Brandon Stanton

Remember ... life is short. Each moment you have is precious. Treasure every second. Don't spend them doing anything you don't love. — Meg Cabot

Bach is really the ultimate in bass players you know — Jack Bruce

GDP doesn't register, as Robert Kennedy put it, "the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, or the intelligence of our public debate." GDP measures everything, Kennedy concluded, "except that which makes life worthwhile." Nor does GDP take into account unpaid work, the so-called compassionate economy. — Eric Weiner

Other acting opportunities had come along, but nothing that was tantalizing enough to me to step away from what I found most interesting. — Fred Savage

With vivid words your just conceptions grace,
Much truth compressing in a narrow space;
Then many shall peruse, but few complain,
And envy frown, and critics snarl in vain. — John Wolcot

If a real God were actually so vain as to constantly demand worship, then he would not be worth it. — Stellan Skarsgard

My ears were full. Nothing more, not one more sound, could push into them and be registered. — Yann Martel

Never hire anyone
you can't fire. — Donald Rumsfeld

Friends should be preferred to kings. — Voltaire

Until further notice, celebrate everything. — Anonymous

Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. It is that principle alone which renders our experience useful to us, and makes us expect, for the future, a similar train of events with those which have appeared in the past. Without the influence of custom, we should be entirely ignorant of every matter of fact beyond what is immediately present to the memory and senses. We should never know how to adjust means to ends, or to employ our natural powers in the production of any effect. There would be an end at once of all action, as well as of the chief part of speculation. — David Hume