Amschel Mayer Quotes & Sayings

If I didn't think you were the devil, I'd say you'd be able to seduce even him. — Laura Thalassa

I grew up with 'The Denver Post' and the 'Golden Transcript.' There was never a moment that I thought I'd work at the 'New York Times.' My goal, starting out, was just to see if I could be a journalist. — John Branch

As death approaches, memory erodes. Recent memories are the first to succumb. Death works its way backward until it reaches memory's earliest beginnings. Then memory flares up for an instant, just like a flame about to go out. That is the 'prayer in the mother tongue.'"

-from "A Prayer in the Mother Tongue — Yasunari Kawabata

Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. — Mayer Amschel Rothschild

I don't shoot anything. I could never kill an animal. My dad does all the hunting, and he eats everything that he kills. — Amber Heard

I have every kind of control, and I have learned them over decades and decades, and I am using them all not to push you up against the bookcase and kiss you until neither of us can breathe."
She lifted her chin. "And what would be wrong with that? — Cassandra Clare

I care not who controls a nation's political affairs, so long as I control her currency — Mayer Amschel Rothschild

The more knowledge you have, the better-equipped you are to tackle any challenge you'll ever face. — Anonymous

The few who understand the system, will either be so interested from it's profits or so dependent on it's favors, that there will be no opposition from that class. — Mayer Amschel Rothschild

When suddenly, as if a shelf were shot forth and she stood on it, she said how she was his wife, married years ago in Milan, his wife, and would never, never tell that he was mad — Virginia Woolf