Laternos Quotes & Sayings

Here's Williams' roadmap out of poverty: Complete high school; get a job, any kind of a job; get married before having children; and be a law-abiding citizen. Among both black and white Americans so described, the poverty rate is in the single digits. — Walter E. Williams

Someday, I'd like to sit down with a small group of people, in a relaxed environment, and make a film that feels more independent. That way we can be a little more free in terms of storytelling and subject. — Chris Wedge

I don't believe in dreams. I believe in going after it. — Tom Brands

I threw bitter tears at the ocean, but all that came back was the tide. — Sarah McLachlan

Choosing to do things your way may doom me to be a penniless spinster."
"If Christ called you to be penniless, would you not become so willingly? — Melissa Jagears

an incantation of hatred. — William Golding

The water is very green and has a sweet taste, both boys wrote in their diaries, at different times. — Helen Oyeyemi

Marriage encourages the men and women who together create life to unite in a bond for the protection of children. — Jack Kingston

Humans are wired to feel uncomfortable with uncertainty and contingency, and so we gravitate to a position after a short time even if we have no new information. — Charles Hugh Smith

When the modern scholar cites from a classic text, the quotation seems to burn a hole in his own drab page. — George Steiner

We have long struggles with ourself, of which the outcome is one of our actions; they are, as it were, the inner side of human nature. This inner side is God's; the outer side belongs to men. — Honore De Balzac

Think about last time you were broke ... now how well did it go with spending your way out of it? Did that work? — P. J. O'Rourke

If you initialed one dollar per second, you would make $1,000 every seventeen minutes. After 12 days of nonstop effort you would acquire your first $1 million. Thus, it would take you 120 days to accumulate $10 million and 1,200 days - something over three years - to reach $100 million. After 31.7 years you would become a billionaire, and after almost a thousand years you would be as wealthy as Bill Gates. But not until after 31,709.8 years would you count your trillionth dollar (and even then you would be less than one-fourth of the way through the pile of money representing America's national debt). That is what $1 trillion is. — Bill Bryson