Jurgis Quotes

#1. To Jurgis the packers had been the equivalent to fate; Ostrinski showed him that they were the Beef Trust. They were a gigantic combination of capital, which had crushed all opposition, and overthrown the laws of the land, and was preying upon the people. Chapter 29, pg. 376

Upton Sinclair

#2. In the face of all his handicaps, Jurgis was obliged to make the price of a lodging, and of a drink every hour or two, under penalty of freezing to death.

Upton Sinclair

#3. Here was one more difficulty for him to meet and conquer.

Upton Sinclair

#4. Fill your mind with thoughts of PEACE, COURAGE, HEALTH and HOPE

Dale Carnegie

#5. Dieve--but I'm glad I'm not a hog.

Upton Sinclair

#6. I've been in New York for going on five years now, and I always thought I would make a mark and do something but I never thought it would be this big of a deal. I'm so blessed and I'm truly honored.

Tituss Burgess

#7. I have taken care of everything in the course of my life, only not for death, and now I have to die completely unprepared.

Cesare Borgia

#8. My choices, it seemed, were to be branded a sinner and live my life alone; to abandon my faith, the one thing I held most dear in the entire world; or to lie to everyone, pretend I was straight, and forget about it all.

Justin Lee

#9. There is no golden rule of dating, except to make sure that it engages both of you; too many people go to a cinema for a first date and of course don't say a word, that's a bad thing!

Steven Hill

#10. Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.

E.L. Doctorow

#11. The interest I have to believe a thing is no proof that such a thing exists.

Voltaire

#12. I think Americans are terrified of feeling anything. I never met a people more infantile in my life.

James A. Baldwin

#13. And he glanced down at Mercy beside him, and saw in her face such radiant goodness, such a calm certainty, that it seemed to him that if he could only be with her all his life, he should know a love, and happiness, and peace that he had never known before.

Edward Rutherfurd

#14. I just didn't have no edge for baseball. Once special coach Tony Oliva and former Twins coach Al Newman told me what happened, I couldn't function.

Torii Hunter

#15. Every problem becomes very childish when once it is explained to you.

Arthur Conan Doyle