One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat for eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours — all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy. —William Faulkner More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office every day. Not because he likes it, but because he can't think of anything else to do. —W. H. Auden More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I'm a secretary. On a good day I type ninety-five words per minute; on a bad day I show up drunk in my pajamas. —Mary Beth Cowan More about this quote Tags: work drinking secretary typing bad days Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I got my first full-time job, but it's weird. I could swear I was making more money in college, working for my parents as their daughter. —Melanie Reno More about this quote Tags: parents money work college Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I don't know if she loves me. I don't know if I love her. All I can say is, she's the one I think about. All the time. Shes the voice I want to hear. She's the face I hope to see. —Sophie Kinsella in I've Got Your Number More about this quote Tags: love hope want Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All I could think was that I'd lost something I never really had. And yet, the sadness in finally letting it go was as real as the tears filling and blurring my eyes. —Sarah Dessen in The Moon & More More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are. —Donald Miller in A Million Miles in a Thousand Years More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You don't gain much in life if you never allow yourself to be vulnerable. Sometimes the best things in life happen when we open our hearts and give someone the opportunity to hurt us, and trust them not to, and they don't. —Terry Bolryder in Bearlebrity More about this quote Tags: life heart trust hurt opportunity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying. —Fran Lebowitz More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas. —Aldous Huxley More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane. —Ray Bradbury More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation. —Judith Martin More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. —Jean Kerr More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sanity is a madness put to good use. —George Santayana More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear. —Ferdinand Foch More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email