The Great Slog Quotes

#1. He would have no inkling of the great slog of effort that tied up people like her in the day-to-day.

Barbara Kingsolver

#2. The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's only God is their belly, that they live only for the present, and that the richer a man is the holier he is held to be.

St. Jerome

#3. You have to be taxed. Just because you work a little harder to have a little bit more money taken from you, I mean, that's scary. I worked hard for it. Why should I be taxed more than other people?

Joe Wurzelbacher

#4. Out of sight, out of mind. My philosophy of life in a test tube.

Julie Anne Peters

#5. Juanita found herself at Old Jeemy's radio station in a room she could have sworn was a laboratory where creatures with antennas in their heads, knobs for eyes, jagged arms, and dangly legs conducted experiments on the bodies of dead vocalists.

Dan Jenkins

#6. I decided early on that I wanted to participate in the greater American experience, rather than the parochial one in Mississippi. But I have an urge as a writer to meld the Southern experience into the larger American one.

Richard Ford

#7. twin studies of anxiety have revealed that genetic factors account for roughly 30 percent to 50 percent of an individual's tendency to be generally anxious or to have a specific anxiety disorder.50

Joseph E. Ledoux

#8. We may know who we are or we may not
We may be Muslims, Jews or Christians
but until our hearts become the mould for every for every heart
we will only see our differences

Rumi

#9. I grew up in rural Oregon in a log house with bark left on inside and out. We had no electricity, a massive stone fireplace, a grand piano, and tons of books.

Virginia Euwer Wolff

#10. I usually stay in on Sunday nights. I'm not much of a party person.

Robert Wilson

#11. No matter how much people in fashion think we're so cool and avant-garde, for most fashion people, creativity is quite taboo.

Riccardo Tisci

#12. Well, it seems like a mad idea to me, but those usually work out for you, said Catarina.

Cassandra Clare

#13. And the sense of security, even the most warranted, is a bad councillor. It is the sense which, like that exaggerated feeling of well-being ominous of the coming on of madness, precedes the swift fall of disaster.

Joseph Conrad

#14. Take time to be still, in a hallowed place in nature, and you'll discover that you are connected to everything.

Denise Linn