To live in poverty is to live with constant uncertainty, to accept galling indignities, and to expect harassment by the police, welfare officials and employers, as well as by others who are poor and desperate.
BARBARA EHRENREICHE-mail has some magical ability to turn off the politeness gene in a human being.
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If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: ‘President Can’t Swim.’
LYNDON B. JOHNSON -
Americans like to believe we can overcome all obstacles and always triumph in the end, but that’s not real life and a steady diet of stories like that will give you a pretty unhealthy view of reality.
BARTLETT SHER -
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
EPICTETUS -
I say that to my colleagues, by the way, in the internal Cabinet meetings, I say, ‘Look, I want to be very clear about what I want.’ I just – I don’t want a peace process, I want a peace result.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU -
I’ve been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It’s boring.
MORGAN FREEMAN -
The technical people may believe, deep down, that they know better what customers “should” need. Customers, of course, have a different perspective.
BARBARA BUND -
If you come at four in the afternoon, I’ll begin to be happy by three.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY -
How difficult it is to deal with myself.
BAD BUNNY -
Life either happens by design or default, you choose.
BOB PROCTOR -
Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN -
A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
B. F. SKINNER -
I want to be what I’ve always wanted to be: dominant.
TIGER WOODS -
We want to fan the flames of Christians for whom inerrancy and the authority of Scripture are not mere shibboleths, but part of her life beat, part of the beating heart of what makes them tick.
D. A. CARSON -
I know that she is beautiful and I like to remind her again and again.
MOSES ALEXANDER -
Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.
CHARLES SCHUMER