Gries Financial Quotes & Sayings

Folly, error, sin, avarice
Occupy our minds and labor our bodies,
And we feed our pleasant remorse
As beggars nourish their vermin. — Charles Baudelaire

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Every time you look up at the stars, it's like opening a door. You could be anyone, anywhere. You could be yourself at any moment in your life. You open that door and you realize you're the same person under the same stars. Camping out in the backyard with your best friend, eleven years old. Sixteen, driving alone, stopping at the edge of the city, looking up at the same stars. Walking a wooded path, kissing in the moonlight, look up and you're eleven again. Chasing cats in a tiny town, you're eleven again, you're sixteen again. You're in a rowboat. You're staring out the back of a car. Out here where the world begins and ends, it's like nothing ever stops happening. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

He takes my face into his hand, and reassures me. "So outside of these walls, we can't stand each other. — Abi Ketner

Freedom is not the ability to do whatever you want. Freedom is the strength of character to do what is good, true, noble, and right. — Matthew Kelly

What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul." - Jewish proverb — Jenny Berg Chandler

A great many things are possible. And to himself he added: But not practical. — Isaac Asimov

In part because they had no choice, right? If you were a slave, you did what the master said. And they said to worship: "You're going to worship with us." — Michael Emerson

I have a theory that musicians recognize each other and if they are destined to collaborate together they will. Mainly, they recognize each other according to the class they belong to. If they are punk-rocker kids from the neighborhood, they are going form a band. If they happen to be musicians that are going to play in pubs and restaurants, they are going to recognize each other, form a band and play together. If it's about musicians that are playing jazz and are going to jazz festivals, for e.g., then they are going to meet and work together. — Vlatko Stefanovski

The actual truth has never written about any war, and this will be no exception. — George Lynch

You can get stuck in one state of mind or a general area of mind for a thousand lifetimes. Some states of mind afford better views than others. — Frederick Lenz