Work Mistreats Quotes & Sayings

Our past is a fictional representation, and the only thing we can be even somewhat sure of is what is happening now. It encourages us to live in the moment and not to place too much importance on our past. It forces us to accept that the best time of our lives, and our memory, is right now. And — Julia Shaw

Even today we don't pay serious attention to the issue of poverty, because the powerful remain relatively untouched by it. Most people distance themselves from the issue by saying that if the poor worked harder, they wouldn't be poor. — Muhammad Yunus

I carry my awareness of defeat like a banner of victory. — Fernando Pessoa

Perseus, you are not the hero. — Rick Riordan

The maid found a handkerchief of hers, under the bed in which she had died. A ring that had been missing turned up in his own writing desk. A tradesman arrived with fabric she had ordered three weeks ago. Each day, some further evidence of a task half finished, a scheme incomplete. He found a novel, with her place marked.
And this is it. — Hilary Mantel

My brother! Nighteyes greeted me joyously. — Robin Hobb

Are you God?" Wyso asked.
"No. He's someone else."
"Are you the Creator?" Danny asked.
"No. She is somewhere else. — Clara Bush

The Founding Fathers were nothing more than a bunch of snobby English shits. — Donald Freed

Joy. That is one of the main blessings of the All-Powerful. If we are happy, we are on the right road. — Paulo Coelho

There are many who think a wise prince ought, when he has the chance, to foment astutely some enmity, so that by suppressing it he will augment his greatness. — Niccolo Machiavelli

The need for beauty and the [artistic] creation which embodies it is inseparable from man, and without it man would possibly not want to live in the world. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Election Day 2010 saw the culmination of years of aggravation and resentment toward a federal government that became disconnected and disdainful of the values and priorities of Americans. — George Allen

The path of least resistance is the path of the loser. — H.G.Wells

I'd always been a big reader, and I loved books, and I always thought writing would be a great way to get by in the world. — Donald Ray Pollock