Quotes of the Week - Oct 5, 2008:
"The reality is we're in an urgent situation and the consequences
will get bigger each day we do not act." -- US President George Bush,
on efforts to resurrect the $700 billion financial rescue package aimed
at stabilizing financial markets.
"Sixty-seven percent of the Republican Conference decided to put
political ideology ahead of the best interest of our great nation."
-- U.S. Congressman James E. Clyburn, a Democrat from South Carolina,
after the House voted against the $700-billion bailout package.
"I go three, maybe four times a year to get tested for sexually transmitted
infections and most of the time I don't even need to." -- Singer
and TV presenter Kelly Osborne.
Authors:
The Grapes of Wrath Quotes, Famous Grapes of Wrath Quotes
Houses
were shut tight, and cloth wedged around doors and windows,
but the dust came in so thinly that it could not be seen in
the air, and it settled like pollen on the chairs and tables,
on the dishes. The Grapes of Wrath Chapter 1
Before
I knowed it, I was sayin' out loud, 'The hell with it! There
ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people
do. It's all part of the same thing.' . . . . I says, 'What's
this call, this sperit?' An' I says, 'It's love. I love people
so much I'm fit to bust, sometimes.' . . . . I figgered, 'Why
do we got to hang it on God or Jesus? Maybe,' I figgered, 'maybe
it's all men an' all women we love; maybe that's the Holy Sperit-the
human sperit-the whole shebang. Maybe all men got one big soul
ever'body's a part of.' Now I sat there thinkin' it, an' all
of a suddent-I knew it. I knew it so deep down that it was true,
and I still know it. The Grapes of Wrath Jim Casy in Chapter 4
They
breathe profits; they eat the interest on money. If they don't
get it, they die the way you die without air, without side-meat.
[referring to the banks] The Grapes of Wrath Chapter 5
The
bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster.
Men made it, but they can't control it. The Grapes of Wrath Chapter 5
It
ain't that big. The whole United States ain't that big. It ain't
that big. It ain't big enough. There ain't room enough for you
an' me, for your kind an' my kind, for rich and poor together
all in one country, for thieves and honest men. For hunger and
fat. The Grapes of Wrath Chapter 12
Man,
unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe,
grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts,
emerges ahead of his accomplishments. The Grapes of Wrath Chapter 14
Fear
the time when the strikes stop while the great owners live -
for every little beaten strike is proof that the step is being
taken … fear the time when Manself will not suffer and
die for a concept, for this one quality is the foundation of
Manself, and this one quality is man, distinctive in the universe. The Grapes of Wrath Chapter 14
Is
a tractor bad? Is the power that turns the long furrows wrong?
If this tractor were ours, it would be good - not mine, but
ours. We could love that tractor then as we have loved this
land when it was ours. But this tractor does two things - it
turns the land and turns us off the land. There is little difference
between this tractor and a tank. The people were driven, intimidated,
hurt by both. We must think about this. The Grapes of Wrath Chapter 14
Okie
use' ta mean you was from Oklahoma. Now it means you're a dirty
son-of-a-bitch. Okie means you're scum. Don't mean nothing itself,
it's the way they say it. The Grapes of Wrath Chapter 18
I
know this … a man got to do what he got to do. The Grapes of Wrath Chapter 18
Sex
and the City
