Timeless Treasures Quotes & Sayings

But what the working-class can do, when once they grow into a solidified organization, is to show the possessing class, through a sudden cessation of all work, that the whole social structure rests on them; that the possessions of the others are absolutely worthless to them without the workers' activity; that such protests, such strikes, are inherent in the system of property and will continually recur until the whole thing is abolished
and having shown that effectively, proceed to expropriate. — Voltairine De Cleyre

Keeping up with him would require running, and there is no dignity in running after any man for any reason, injured or not. — Suzanne Johnson

I think for anything to change, in the real world, people have got to change on the inside and that's what we want to start, to get people to think and do more themselves and get involved in whatever they want to get involved with. — Graham Russell

Man has made such a mighty struggle to feel at home on the face of the earth, without even yet succeeding. — D.H. Lawrence

I look crazy. I know I do. Been true since I was a kid! — Lynda Barry

She hugs me. It's tentative at first, a little scared, and yes, a little repulsed, but then she melts into it. She rests her head against my cold neck and embraces me. Unable to believer what's happening, I put my arm around her and just hold her.
I almost swear I can feel my heart thumping. But it must just be hers, pressed tightly against my chest. — Isaac Marion

Every British Subject born on the continent of America, or in any other of the British dominions, is by the law of God and nature, by the common law, and by act of parliament, (exclusive of all charters from the crown) entitled to all the natural, essential, inherent and inseparable rights of our fellow subjects in Great- Britain. — James Otis

I guess I feel very strongly that I disagree with the notion of personalizing history and movements and big events. — Bernadine Dohrn

I'm also pretty resilient and fearless, and when I want something I go for it. — Dagmara Dominczyk

Unfortunately, in self-discovery, you get the culty types who want the father figure or mother figure to tell them everything to do. They don't want to do any work. They want to hang on your energy and try to drain it. — Frederick Lenz

Other guys read Playboy. I read annual reports. — Warren Buffett

... though I wouldn't have admitted it, even to myself, I didn't want God aboard. He was too heavy. I wanted Him approving from a considerable distance. I didn't want to be thinking of Him. I wanted to be free - like Gypsy. I wanted life itself, the color and fire and loveliness of life. And Christ now and then, like a loved poem I could read when I wanted to. I didn't want us to be swallowed up in God. I wanted holidays from the school of Christ. — Sheldon Vanauken

The NCI scientific programme leaders meet regularly to ensure that we are not ignoring highly original proposals and that we are not creating an unbalanced grant portfolio. — Harold E. Varmus

I never hanker after the past - I prefer to devote myself to new tasks. — Steffi Graf

I want him to take life by the horns and ride it for all it's worth. — Amy Harmon