Captain Jack Sparrow Inspirational Quotes & Sayings

No economic activity was more irrepressible [in the 14th century] than the investment and lending at interest of money; it was the basis for the rise of the Western capitalist economy and the building of private fortunes-and it was based on the sin of usury. — Barbara Tuchman

You want to come back to the bank vault?" Jack says.
The bank vault. That's what Jack calls his house. — Allen Zadoff

Don't dwell too much on the past. The lessons are useful for the present and a preparation for the future. Move on! — Lailah Gifty Akita

My weight fluctuates depending on my mood and my current devotion to my fitness routine. — Lena Dunham

Instead of Gnostics, we have Existentialists and God-is-dead theologians, instead of Neo-Platonists, devotees of Zen, instead of desert hermits, heroin addicts and Beats (who also, oddly enough, seem averse to washing), instead of mortification of the flesh, sado-masochistic pornography; as for our public entertainments, the fare offered by television is still a shade less brutal than that provided by the Amphitheatre, but only a shade and may not be so for long. — W. H. Auden

Follow your heart, not the mind. The mind is judgmental, the heart is kind. — Debasish Mridha

Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and good. Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse of an individual — Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are still moments when you can tell something slips into her brain and another world blinds her to us. But a few words from Finnick call her back — Suzanne Collins

I always knew you had good taste, Mia. You should go talk to him." "I should go talk to him. I should also file my taxes on time, remember to floss regularly, and inherit seven million dollars. But I won't. Ever. — Sara Wolf

Provincial liberties can subsist for a time without national liberty when those liberties are ancient and linked to habit, mores, and memories, while despotism is new. But it is unreasonable to think that one can create local liberties at will or even maintain them for long if general liberty is suppressed. — Alexis De Tocqueville

Until there was Piper McCloud.
The probability of a flier is so rare, so completely out of the ordinary, and it was the very thing that Conrad needed to make an escape plan work. The minute he saw that Piper could fly, he knew hope. He carefully plotted and prepared for every eventuality except one
Piper's refusal to leave without the other's.
How can she be so colosally stupid??!! Didn't she understand? — Victoria Forester

I don't like to cook, but I like to eat popcorn with butter and salt. — Beverly Johnson

In Eden, worship was not an event to attend, but a perpetual attitude. — Rick Warren