The world was one of great contrasts, she thought, and if the richest part of it was to be fenced off so that people like herself could only look at it with no expectation of ever being able to get inside it, then it would be better to have been born blind so you couldn't see it, born deaf so you couldn't hear it, born with no sense of touch so you couldn't feel it. Better still, born with no brain so that you would be completely unaware of anything, so that you would never know there were places that were filled with sunlight and good food and where children were safe. —Ann Petry More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Getting a living under capitalism . . . is so precarious, so uncertain, fraught with such pain and struggle that the wonder is not that so many people become vicious and criminal, but that so many remain in docile submission to such a tyrannous and debasing condition. —Eugene V. Debs More about this quote Tags: wonder fear money pain crime doubt capitalism struggle submission Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed, it's called a depression. —Jesse Jackson More about this quote Tags: USA race blackness unemployment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure and to another all the burdens of work condemns both classes to spiritual sterility. —Lewis Mumford More about this quote Tags: society work inequality class leisure sterility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Figure it out. Work a lifetime to pay off a house. You finally own it, and there's no one to live in it. —Arthur Miller More about this quote Tags: living money housing mortgages Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Personally I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an "ethic. —Barbara Ehrenreich More about this quote Tags: ethics work Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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