Tenements 1900 Quotes & Sayings

If you ask the government to solve all of your problems, it's a bit like asking your wife to cook and clean, to raise the children, to hold down a second job to help with the family finances, to keep her parents happy and well and keep your parents happy and well, and to also - to do the lawn and clean the gutters. — P. J. O'Rourke

Gadfangled girl things, always robbed me of my common sense. — Bruce Coville

We ought not give ourselves the benefit of the doubt if we plan on doubting everything else. — G.K. Chesterton

You can power the entire U.S. vehicle fleet with 73,000 to 145,000 five-megawatt wind turbines. That would take between one and three square kilometers of footprint on the ground. — Mark Z. Jacobson

Sooner or later, the future always circles back to the past. — Lisa Wingate

Comedy, your funny bone, is formed in childhood. — Paul O'Grady

(Sometimes when) someone's directing for the first time, they're afraid to include everyone - they have to prove they're the director. — Richard Gere

Anyway, men don't rule the world. We have a female prime minister. And you rule your world. You rule the Fitzpatrick household. — Liane Moriarty

There was something about the self-confession and self-confusion of abstract expressionism - as though the man and the work were the same - that personally always put me off because at that time my focus was in the opposite direction. — Robert Rauschenberg

There are things that can only be said with a good string of cussing. I'm definitely fond of a few choice words. They say things that nothing else can say. Gotta love it. — Tony Hale

Remember God likes us best when we are flying by the seats of our pants, — Ruth Bernhard

Modern education too often covers the fingers with rings, and at the same time cuts the sinews at the wrist. — John Sterling

My grandfather would have loved to have met you," he told her huskily. "He would have called you 'She Moves Trees Out of His Path.' "
She looked lost, but his da laughed. He'd known the old man, too.
"He called me 'He Who Must Run into Trees,'" Charles explained, and in a spirit of honesty, a need for his mate to know who he was, he continued, "or sometimes 'Running Eagle.' "
" 'Running Eagle'?" Anna puzzled it over, frowning at him. "What's wrong with that?"
"Too stupid to fly," murmured his father with a little smile. — Patricia Briggs

Replacing it with a thought. I sometimes think, "What the hell. I have four working limbs right now. I'm winning just to even have the privilege of this experience!" Steering my brain onto this track of thought begins the process of being grateful for the lesson and returns my mind to a more peaceful place. — Graham Shiels