In individual industries where female labour pays an important role, any movement advocating better wages, shorter working hours, etc., would not be doomed from the start because of the attitude of those women workers who are not organized.

Your simple smile can lighten the darkest places

Steve Maraboli

Rome was mud and smoky skies; the rank smell of the Tiber and the exotically spiced cooking fires of a hundred different nationalities. Rome was white marble and gilding and heady perfumes; the blare of trumpets and the shrieking of market-women and the eternal, sub-aural hum of more people, speaking more languages than Gaius had ever imagined existed, crammed together on seven hills whose contours had long ago disappeared beneath this encrustation if humanity. Rome was the pulsing heart of the world.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

I don't want to produce anymore small or independent movies because it's just too hard these days.

John Cusack

American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather than connoisseurs. The old German style of universal scholarship has gone.

Camille Anna Paglia

Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Robert Thibodeau

It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.

Abraham Lincoln

No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer'.

Danielle Berry

Over the last few years, the world has become a smaller and more integrated place with technology that is leveling the playing field like never before.

Ron Kind

Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

Voltaire

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Paramahansa Yogananda

My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could.

George Weinberg

Toate familiile fericite se aseam?n? între ele. Fiecare familie nefericit? este nefericit? în felul ei.

Leo Tolstoy