Workania Quotes & Sayings

[My husband] can beat most anyone in Trivial Pursuit, but only because the game does not include questions like "Where is your wallet? — Amy Sutherland

Oh no?" he sneered, pulling a packet of cigarettes from his pocket and lighting one up. "Knowing what you're like, the slightest sign of a discarded cigarette butt and you would've been crawling around on your hands and knees trying to figure out how tall the smoker was, how old he was, what zodiac sign he was, whether he'd taken a crap that morning, and Christ knows what else. — Tim O'Rourke

Marriage is a mystery and part of it is just being kind to each other, not being selfish. — Aisha Tyler

When the Congress first met, Mr. Cushing made a motion that it should be opened with prayer ... Mr. Samuel Adams arose and said he was no bigot, and could hear a prayer from a gentleman of piety and virtue, who was at the same time a friend to his country. He ... had heard that Mr. Duche ... deserved that character and therefore he moved that Mr. Duche ... might be desired to read prayers to the Congress ... After (he read several prayers), Mr. Duche, unexpected to everybody, struck out into an extemporary prayer, which filled the bosom of every man present. — John Adams

Its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery ... is his natural and normal condition. — Alexander H. Stephens

These plants know that when your world is changing rapidly, it is important to have identified the one thing that you can always count upon. — Hope Jahren

May we not outgrow the belief that poverty is necessary? - Alfred Marshall 1890 — Martin Ravallion

The real meaning of courage was the personal sacrifice of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King. — Pete Seeger

Everything move ... you wonder how it all knows where to go. Einstein wondered how birds knew where to migrate to. He thought they might follow lines of light in the sky. He saw everything as lines of light. That's how he was built. So we don't know how he moved, either. Any more than the birds. — Geoff Ryman

I have quite a robust relationship with regret. You simply don't know what the alternative would have been. — Juliet Stevenson

Sometimes the personalities at the helm of the madness industry are, with their drives and obsessions, as mad in their own way as those they study. And that relatively ordinary people are, more and more, defined by their maddest edges. — Jon Ronson