Throbius Quotes & Sayings

It launched one worker, Eugene Debs, into a lifetime of activism for labor unions and socialism. Debs was arrested for supporting the strike. Two years later he wrote: The issue is Socialism versus Capitalism. I am for Socialism because I am for humanity. We have been cursed with the reign of gold long enough. Money constitutes no proper basis for civilization. The time has come to regenerate [renew] society - we are on the eve of a universal change. Like — Howard Zinn

Industrial culture? There has been a phenomena; I don't know whether it's strong enough to be a culture. I do think what we did has had a reverberation right around the world and back. — Genesis P-Orridge

You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having. — Frank Lloyd Wright

PIE, n. An advance agent of the reaper whose name is Indigestion. — Ambrose Bierce

I've covered Israel just as I cover other politics. — David Gregory

The threshold is the place of expectation. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Within and about the Forest of Tantrevalles existed a hundred or more fairy shees, each the castle of a fairy tribe. Thripsey Shee on Madling Meadow, little more than a mile within the precincts of the forest, was ruled by King Throbius and his spouse Queen Bossum. His realm included Madling Meadow and as much of the forest surrounding as was consistent with his dignity. The fairies at Thripsey numbered eighty-six. — Jack Vance

I was kind of pathetic. That's what got me playing out in the street. I ran out of money and needed more gin for the night. — Frank Fairfield

then reached over with his left hand and lifted Andy's gun from its — Lou Bradshaw

Now is the time ... for this nation to take a clearly leading role in space achievement, which in many ways may hold the key to our future on Earth. — John F. Kennedy

Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle's light. — Beverly Sills

Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine. — Sally Ride

Believe in life! Always human beings will progress to greater, broader, and fuller life. — W.E.B. Du Bois

My basic advise is don't lose money — Jim Rogers

Dany kissed him lightly on the cheek. It heartened her to see him smile. I must be strong for him as well, she thought grimly. A knight he may be, but I am the blood of the dragon. — George R R Martin

He says not to list the patients we save but the ones we don't kill. — Barbara Wood