Branne's [Pavlovic] parents wanted him to become a taxi driver, but he became a stand-up comedian instead. So they died of shame.
All too often unemployment is used as an excuse for misbehaving when jobs are available within walking distance.
A free ride is life's most difficult journey.
Liberals have one solution for every economic issue; eat the seed corn.
What is written is more influential than what is said.
The one thing that flies in the face of all human history and experience, is that the government can do a superior job than the private sector.
People who never seen to learn claim the government can be made more efficient.
I have always abhorred the word racism. I never use it.
I'm not sure what we're running from. Nobody. Or the future. Fate. Growing up. Getting old. Picking up the pieces. As if running we won't have to get on with our lives.
Many of the cemeteries are beautiful, and are kept in perfect order. When one goes from the levee or the business streets [of New Orleans] to it, to a cemetery, he observes to himself that if those people down there would live as neatly while they are alive as they do after they are dead, they would find many advantages in it; and besides, their quarter would be the wonder and admiration of the business world.
You have to do the work. You have to make the opportunity. It doesn’t find you, you find it.