Any time you take a chance you better be sure the rewards are worth the risk because they can put you away just as fast for a ten ...dollar heist as they can for a million dollar job.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly. If th' assassination... Could trammel up the consequence, and catch With his surcease success--that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all!--here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, We'd jump the life to come.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In my opinion it is harmful to place important things in the hands of philanthropy, which in Russia is marked by a chance characte...r. Nor should important matters depend on leftovers, which are never there. I would prefer that the government treasury take care of it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about colored women, and if colored men get their rig...hts, and not colored women theirs, you see the colored men will be masters over the women, and it will be just as bad as it was before. So I'm for keeping the thing going while things are stirring; because if we wait till it is still, it will take a great while to get it going again.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Conventions, at the present moment, are really menaced. The most striking sign of this is that people are now making unconventiona...lity a social virtue, instead of an unsocial vice. The switches have been opened, and the laden trains must take their chance of a destination.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[When asked: "If women voted, would they not have to sit on juries?":] Many women would be glad of a chance to sit on anything. Th...ere are women who stand up and wash six days in the week at 75 cents a day who would like to take a vacation and sit on a jury at $1.50.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When a man of normal habits is ill, everyone hastens to assure him that he is going to recover. When a vegetarian is ill (which fo...rtunately very seldom happens), everyone assures him that he is going to die, and that they told him so, and that it serves him right. They implore him to take at least a little gravy, so as to give himself a chance of lasting out the night.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Since mothers are more likely to take children to their activities--the playground, ballet or karate class, birthday parties--they... get a chance to see other children in action.... Fathers usually don't spend as much time with other people's kids; because of this, they have a narrower view of what constitutes "normal" behavior, and therefore what should or shouldn't require parental discipline.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »