Sydney Carton Seamstress Quotes & Sayings

I focus on a simple message: when you leave the two-thirds of Americans without college degrees out of your vision of the good life, they notice. And when elites commit to equality for many different groups but arrogantly dismiss "the dark rigidity of fundamentalist rural America,"6 this is a recipe for extreme alienation among working-class whites. Deriding "political correctness" becomes a way for less-privileged whites to express their fury at the snobbery of more-privileged whites. I don't like what this dynamic is doing to America. There are two reasons I think we have to try to replace it with a healthier one. The first is ethical: I am committed to social equality, not for some groups but for all groups. The second is strategic: the hidden injuries of class7 now have become visible in politics so polarized that our democracy is threatened. A few words — Joan C. Williams

Medication is of course important but do not conclude that a pill dissolving in your stomach is necessarily more powerful than a healing thought in your mind. — Norman Vincent Peale

Toil to some is happiness, and rest to others. This man can only breathe in crowds, and that man only in solitudes. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I genuinely find it difficult to think of places that I'd never want to see again. It might be because part of my career has been concerned with writing about topography. — Jonathan Meades

Well, farmers never have made money. I don't believe we can do much about it. But of course we will have to seem to be doing something; do the best we can and without much hope. The life of the farmer has its compensations but it has always been one of hardship. — Calvin Coolidge

You've got to make your own kind of music, sing your own special song, make your own kind of music, even if nobody else sings along. — Cass Elliot

The avoidance of pain is the avoidance of life. — Stefan Molyneux

You arrange your life based on what "everyone" thinks of you or what you think they think of you,whoever everyone is ... — Esther Verhoef

The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree. — William Shakespeare

I told you. It was interesting' [Annabel]
'Interesting,' he [Owen] said, 'is not a word.'
'Since when? — Sarah Dessen

Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth — Thomas Hobbes

My earliest realization of the stir of national life was the torch parade in the Garfield campaign. On that occasion, I was not only allowed out that night, but I saw the lamps being filled and lighted. — Herbert Hoover

Scatter soaked hardwood chunks over your coals for a quick and easy way to add a smoky nuance to your grilled foods. — Emeril Lagasse

Being frugal, conscious of making money, is not a negative thing. That sensibility of creating value and finding value and reinvesting in those customers is what separates great restaurants from the average ones. — Joe Bastianich