Soci Lna Poistovna Quotes & Sayings

It was piecework, and she was apt to have a family to keep alive; and stern and ruthless economic laws had arranged it that she could only do this by working just as she did, with all her soul upon her work, and with never an instant for a glance at the well-dressed ladies and gentlemen who came to stare at her, as at some wild beast in a menagerie. — Upton Sinclair

Gathered around me were the weak instead of the strong, the ugly instead of the beautiful, the losers instead of the winners. It looked like it was my destiny to travel in their company through life. That didn't bother me so much as the fact that I seemed irresistible to these dull idiot fellows. — Charles Bukowski

If you give a little credit to the concept of the artist, I think you ought to indulge excesses a bit, because that reflects the personality of the writer. Now if a joke is in bad taste or it's not funny, okay, that's awhole different thing, but how you craft a joke is really what the writer's job is, and I don't think that technique should be subject to any editorial constraints. — Bill Watterson

a small number of wealthy landowners has dominated a large population of landless and small-holding peasants. — BOB

It doesn't matter what we think we are there [in Afghanistan] for; it matters what they think. They think we are invaders. — Gwynne Dyer

It hardly does much good to have a complex mind without actually being a philosopher. — Saul Bellow

Economics is the study of how society manages its scarce resources. — Greg Mankiw

So. Her husband-to-be was a philanderer. A smooth operator. A debaucher. A rake. A frisker. (Jane was something of a walking thesaurus when she was upset, a side effect of too much reading.) — Cynthia Hand

In Rome you long for the country. In the country you praise to the skies the distant town. — Horace

There may be in the cup A spider steep'd, and one may drink, depart, And yet partake no venom, for his knowledge Is not infected: but if one present The abhorr'd ingredient to his eye, make known How he hath drunk, he cracks his gorge, his sides, With violent hefts. I have drunk, and seen the spider. — William Shakespeare

From shit, thus, I extract pure Shinola — Umberto Eco

Belief in limitation is the one and only thing that causes limitation. — Thomas Troward