Quotes About Jurgis The Jungle

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

Upton Sinclair

#2. In the tranquillity of a garden, we detest the war and love the peace much more than any other places!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#3. a total fucking gas

John Forbes

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

Upton Sinclair

#5. When we travel, we aim for the sublime. It's the ridiculous stuff, however, that we tend to treasure the most.

Erik Torkells

#6. Clearly when you're immortal, life is no longer too short to stuff a mushroom.

Alexis Hall

#7. Our political and constitutional rights, so called, are but the natural and inherent rights of man, asserted, carried out, and secured by modes of human contrivance.

Gerrit Smith

#8. There is a universal intelligence that we call God or Soul or Spirit or Consciousness, and it is everywhere and in all things.

Wayne Dyer

#9. Natural disasters are terrifying - that loss of control, this feeling that something is just going to randomly end your life for absolutely no reason is terrifying. But, what scares me is the human reaction to it and how people behave when the rules of civility and society are obliterated.

Eli Roth

#10. I've done a number of readings at poetry lounges in Vancouver and Los Angeles. I've compiled a book of poetry that's completed, and two others I'm working on.

Corin Nemec

#11. It is a fundamental misperception," Fouts says to me, "to think human life has more value than any other life form.

Lauren Slater

#12. I was having panic attacks. I didn't want to live that way anymore. I was in love and I wanted it to work. I was tired of travelling, tired of the whole scene, just tired. I sat around. I was lazy. I wanted a routine, and I wanted to wake up in the same bed every day, and I got my wish.

Linda Evangelista

#13. I'm not a disciplinarian. I simply enforce other people's decisions.

Lou Holtz

#14. Thus we must advance from generalities to particulars; for it is a whole that is best known to sense-perception, (25) and a generality is a kind of whole, comprehending many things within it, like parts.

Aristotle.

#15. If you have a work instead of a job, every day is holiday

Paulo Coelho

#16. Because I've always noticed that if you speak the truth in a rather silly way nobody believes you. I've often done it over contracts. And it's also a good thing to seem stupider than you are.

Agatha Christie

#17. Maybe hope and sadness can coexist, she thought. That felt like a significant idea. Maybe Cam could hope without denying that huge part of herself that needed to be sad. She didn't have to sacrifice one for the other. Maybe all people were both hopeful and sad in every moment of their lives.

Wendy Wunder