It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.
Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.
Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.
Is ‘The Wind in the Willows’ a children’s book? Is ‘Alice in Wonderland?’ Is ‘Treasure Island?’ These are masterpieces which we read with pleasure as children, but with how much more pleasure when we are grown-up.
I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I think, and out of all that I try to form an idea into which I put as much common sense as I can.
I am not too much into Netflix and Amazon because spending quality time with family is more valuable.
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
You can only learn so much from books. You can only learn so much from education. Ultimately, it is the wisdom of God that will carry you through in the toughest situations of life.
Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.
The lion is, however, rarely heard – much more seldom seen.
I’m grateful for every day I’m still alive. Everything is still working. I attribute it to eating a lot of processed foods. I think it’s the preservatives that keep me going. That, and I eat as much chocolate as I can get my hands on.
If at first you don’t succeed… so much for skydiving.
Many people say I believe aliens built the pyramids. I don’t. In fact I’m not a supporter of the ‘ancient alien’ hypothesis at all. I think a lost human civilization is a much better explanation of the mysteries and paradoxes of ancient cultures.
Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.
I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it.
In opera, there is always too much singing.
I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
I want a man who’s kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire?
If we don’t make tough decisions today our children are going to have to make much, much tougher decisions tomorrow.
Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen.
Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.
I think Ray Charles did as much as anybody when he did his country music album. Ray Charles broke down borders and showed the similarities between country music and R&B.
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love.
A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we’re children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they’re scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it’s pretty much in the eye of the beholder.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
