Jack London Famous Quotes
"The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class."
The proper function of man is to live - not to exist.
"I would rather be ashes than dust I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time."
"A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog."
"There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive."
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Jack London Quotations
Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"See, I am sending an angel ahead of you to guard you along the way..."
Exodus 2320 Bible
The coming together of two laudable movements -- death with dignity and cost containment -- concerns me Patients have a right to die. But do they have a duty to die
Mark Siegler
Never eat more than you can lift.
Miss Piggy
Nobody ever outgrows Scripture the book widens and deepens with our years.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
"All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway."
Harry S Truman
Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.
J Danforth Quayle
"Under any conditions, anywhere, whatever you are doing, there is some ordinance under which you can be booked."
Robert D Sprecht
"Our way is not soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upward, forward, toward the sun."
Ruth Westheimer
"Our children are here to stay, but our babies and toddlers and preschoolers are gone as fast as they can grow up-and we have only a short moment with each. When you see a grandfather take a baby in his arms, you see that the moment hasn't always been long enough."
Saint Clair Adams Sullivan