"It is not true that there is dignity in all work. Some jobs are definitely better than others.... People who have good jobs are happy, rich, and well dressed. People who have bad jobs are unhappy, poor and use meat extenders. Those who seek dignity in the type of work that compels them to help hamburgers are certain to be disappointed."

-- Fran Lebowitz

#Jobs Quotes #People Quotes #Unhappy Quotes

“All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“When words we want, love teacheth to indite; And what we blush to speak, she bids us write.”
“Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.”

Source : "Selected Poems: Summer Knowledge". Book by Delmore Schwartz, 1959.
“I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds.”

Source : John James Audubon (1899). “Audubon and His Journals”
“I am not ashamed to use the word class. I will also plead guilty to another charge. The charge is that people belonging to my class think they're better than other people. You're damn right we're better. We're better because we do not shirk our obligations either to ourselves or to others. . . .we live by our lights, we die by our lights, and whoever the high gods may be, we'll look them in the eye without apology.”
“Our dreams make us large.”

Source : "Ava DuVernay Will Be the First Black Woman to Direct a DC Superhero Movie" by Julyssa Lopez, www.glamour.com. March 16, 2018.
“I don't control the movies that are offered to me, but I make choices based on certain parameters.”
“Life springs from death; and from the graves of patriot men and women spring living nations.”

Source : "The Cause Of Ireland" by Liz Curtis, Beyond the Pale Publications, Belfast, (p. 226), 1994.

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