Workhouse England Quotes & Sayings

course it was angry. Gender as it functions today is a grave injustice. I am angry. We should all be angry. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it. — Marcus Valerius Martialis

Good women don't reform bad men, they only irritate them. — Talbot Mundy

Grover Cleveland declined to participate in character attacks on Blaine . When presented with papers which purported to be extremely damaging to Blaine, he grabbed them, tore them up, flung the shreds into the fire, and decreed, The other side can have a monopoly of all the dirt in this campaign. — Grover Cleveland

Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment. — Philip K. Dick

[ ... ]No book can be really complete in this life; it has to end where the author's time and understanding end. There is always something left unsaid. I look forward to the life to come as the unending last chapter of all the good books I have ever read. — Kathryn Lindskoog

I'd be the outsider gal who undergoes a makeover in the end [in the 'The Breakfast Club' ]. — Greta Salpeter

I like junk food, French fries, hamburgers - I love it. — Rain

Books make up no small part of human happiness. — Frederick The Great

At this point, Mrs. Disher stepped in to say, if you thought that was scary, look at how poor people lived in the late twentieth century. Indeed, after ractives told them about the life of an inner-city Washington, D.C., child during the 1990s, most students had to agree they'd take a workhouse in pre-Victorian England over that any day. — Neal Stephenson