“Short work was made of a cushion which was so unfortunate as to slip off my chair; and finally, leaping up in… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
“Emancipation of women? Countries with short workweeks consistently top gender-equality rankings.” — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
Wouldn't it be kinder to say that a lie is a short work of fiction? 'A story' as my daughter says? — Helen McCloy Copy Share Image
Countries with short workweeks consistently top gender' equality rankings. The central issue is achieving a more equitable distribution of work. — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
“Xav tugged Yves off me and handed me the call button. “You’ll be needing this, Phee, when my irritating little squirt of… — Joss Stirling Copy Share Image
My first book published in France was translated and titled Exercices d'Attente in 1972. It was a collection of short works written… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
As long as you don't fly openly in the face of society, society doesn't ask any inconvenient questions; and it makes precious… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Now, if the Standard Oil Company were the only concern in the country guilty of the practices which have given it monopolistic… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
“[Hitler] has grasped the falsity of the hedonistic attitude to life. Nearly all western thought since the last war, certainly all “progressive”… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
All progressive thought has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security and avoidance of pain ... Hitler, because in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Glad to know about all of you who care about books, including or especially poetry. I'm a much published writer/editor of 12… — Carole Spearin McCauley Copy Share Image
“My hope is that you read these pages and know you aren’t alone when you submit your short work. You are part… — Windy Lynn Harris Copy Share Image
“He glared accusingly at her while he made short work of his clothes. "You didn't wake me up." She rolled her eyes… — R.L. Mathewson Copy Share Image
“Mr. Lockery—my biology teacher—says if dinosaurs were magically brought forward in time today, we’d have nothing to worry about. Dogs, wolves, and… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
“Scott stared at her mouth, just stared like he was hypnotized, paralyzed, like that crimson O was the answer to all of… — Therese Anne Fowler Copy Share Image
The Golcondas were considered incomparably the best team in Southern India ... [But] we defeated [them] by 9 goals to 3. On… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Our critique is not opposed to the *dogmatic procedure* of reason in its pure knowledge as science (for science must always be… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“I just wasn't able to say it before now.' He blinked. 'You needed to knee a man in the groin before you… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
By and large the literature of a democracy will never exhibit the order, regularity, skill, and art characteristic of aristocratic literature; formal… — Alexis De Tocqueville Copy Share Image
