Dimed Quotes

#1. A lot of what we experience as strength comes from knowing what to do with weakness.
Nickel and Dimed On (Not) Getting By in America

Barbara Ehrenreich

#2. I've never enriched myself via privatization schemes in Eastern Europe.

Joshua Cohen

#3. Your nerve endings
I know their plot
To attack
My never endings
Until we fall asleep
In each other's arms

Iain S. Thomas

#4. Once I stand and watch helplessly while some rug rat pulls everything he can reach off the racks, and the thought that abortion is wasted on the unborn must show on my face, because his mother finally tells him to stop.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#5. The mind that is much elevated and insolent with prosperity, and cast down with adversity, is generally abject and base.

Epicurus

#6. Hobbes: Do you think there's a God? Calvin: Well, somebody's out to get me!

Bill Watterson

#7. I'm pretty aggressive, and maybe obnoxious, about trying to get work.

Harvey Pekar

#8. The way of painful duty is the way of fullest comfort. Christ carrieth all our comforts in his hand : if we are out of that way where Christ is to be met, we are out of the way where comfort is to be had (312).

Richard Baxter

#9. Anti-Americanism may indeed have grown fiercer than it was during the cold war. It is a common phenomenon that when the angels fail to deliver, the demons become more fearsome.

Ian Buruma

#10. My father's right to shape my life had been taken from him by the same being who gave his own life meaning - the Rebbe.

Chaim Potok