Quotes about "Gig Economy & Freelancing"

If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned. ”

I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up. ”

It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life. ”

I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand. ”

I was born and have ever remained in the most humble walks of life. ”

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. ”

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built. ”

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time. ”

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right. ”

Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn't get there. ”