Quotes About Jurgis The Jungle

#1. 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. - Author: Eli Roth

#2. 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. - Author: Wendy Wunder

#3. 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. - Author: Agatha Christie

#4. If you have a work instead of a job, every day is holiday - Author: Paulo Coelho

#5. 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. - Author: Aristotle.

#6. I'm not a disciplinarian. I simply enforce other people's decisions. - Author: Lou Holtz

#7. 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. - Author: Linda Evangelista

#8. It is a fundamental misperception," Fouts says to me, "to think human life has more value than any other life form. - Author: Lauren Slater

#9. 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. - Author: Corin Nemec

#10. Here was one more difficulty for him to meet and conquer. - Author: Upton Sinclair

#11. There is a universal intelligence that we call God or Soul or Spirit or Consciousness, and it is everywhere and in all things. - Author: Wayne Dyer

#12. 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. - Author: Gerrit Smith

#13. Clearly when you're immortal, life is no longer too short to stuff a mushroom. - Author: Alexis Hall

#14. When we travel, we aim for the sublime. It's the ridiculous stuff, however, that we tend to treasure the most. - Author: Erik Torkells

#15. Dieve--but I'm glad I'm not a hog. - Author: Upton Sinclair

#16. a total fucking gas - Author: John Forbes

#17. In the tranquillity of a garden, we detest the war and love the peace much more than any other places! - Author: Mehmet Murat Ildan