Charles Finley Quotes & Sayings

There is no place for government to prohibit consumers from buying products the effect of which will be to harm themselves — Milton Friedman

I feel like I come from a smaller off shoot of black people because I am mixed. People say I'm African American but that doesn't include the other half of me. — Maya Rudolph

We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers. — Samuel Smiles

Understanding the language of eyes now came as naturally to him as swimming in the ocean came to a fish and flying in the sky to a bird! — Avijeet Das

But I wouldn't mind if You included a Prince Charles in my story. Charming!" Millie shook her head. "I meant Prince Charming. Really, Lord. Time to pray about something else... — Martha Finley

Hello," he whispered.
Her smile turned tremulous. "Hello. — Kristen Callihan

I've given birth to five babies and I breastfed every single one of these babies. To think that government has to go out and buy my breast pump for my babies. You wanna talk about the nanny state? I think we just got the new definition of a nanny. — Michele Bachmann

All schools have their skeletons. St Oswald's is no exception. Most of the time, we try our best to keep them in the closet. But this time, the only recourse we have is to throw open all the closets, light as many bulbs as we can and catch the vermin as it comes out. — Joanne Harris

At first it made me angry, but then it made me sad, and then it made me so grateful, and then it made me angry again, and I went through these feelings hundreds of times, stopping on each for only a moment and then moving to the next. — Jonathan Safran Foer

What is it you do, then? I'll tell you: You leave out whatever doesn't suit you. As the author himself has done before you. Just as you leave things out of your dreams and fantasies. By leaving things out, we bring beauty and excitement into the world. We evidently handle our reality by effecting some sort of compromise with it, an in-between state where the emotions prevent each other from reaching their fullest intensity, graying the colors somewhat. Children who haven't yet reached that point of control are both happier and unhappier than adults who have. And yes, stupid people also leave things out, which is why ignorance is bliss. So I propose, to begin with, that we try to love each other as if we were characters in a novel who have met in the pages of a book. Let's in any case leave off all the fatty tissue that plumps up reality. — Robert Musil

To have acted otherwise ... would have been the betrayal of the interests of the United States. — Theodore Roosevelt