#class

'Twilight' has ruined me. When this is all over, flying internationally is going to be very hard for me. It is just not worth it to buy a first-class ticket, because of the cost. ↗

— Ashley Greene

#buy #cost #first-class #flying #going

There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress. ↗

— Mark Twain

#class #congress #criminal #distinctly #except

And that's actually the brunt of what we do is, people going straight from their workplace, straight from home, straight into the classroom and working directly with the students. So then we're able to work with thousands and thousands more students. ↗

— Dave Eggers

#actually #brunt #classroom #directly #going

Populists have always been out to challenge the orthodoxy of the corporate order and to empower workaday Americans so they can control their own economic and political destinies. This approach distinguishes the movement from classic liberalism, which seeks to live in harmony with concentrated corporate power by trying to regulate excesses. ↗

— Jim Hightower

#approach #been #challenge #classic #concentrated

I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if I was a lush, OK? I would really love to read a piece that said, 'He is not a lush.' That would be fabulous, it would be a first, I could show it to people and say, 'Look!' ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#class #could #deadline #fabulous #first

The middle class is teetering on the brink of collapse just as surely as AIG was in the fall of 2009 - only this time, it's not just one giant insurance company (and its banking counterparties) facing disaster, it's tens of millions of hardworking Americans who played by the rules. ↗

— Arianna Huffington

#brink #class #collapse #company #disaster

Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language. ↗

— Roman Jakobson

#classified #except #explained #language #light

When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory. ↗

— Billy Joel

#available #classical #conservatory #education #i

The working classes were becoming more and more sharply aware of the complex causes of international malaise. ↗

— Leon Jouhaux

#becoming #causes #classes #complex #international

This led me to understand that trade unionism, the instrument of working-class liberation and of social change could, and indeed should, be also an instrument of industrial progress. ↗

— Leon Jouhaux

#change #could #indeed #industrial #instrument