Leatrice Debruhl Daniels Quotes & Sayings

Our whole Depression was brought on by gambling, not in the stock market alone but in expanding and borrowing and going in debt ... all just to make some easy money quick. — Will Rogers

I don't believe in luck. Luck is just preparation meeting the moment of opportunity. — Oprah Winfrey

It is awkward to listen to oneself being praised, and I was always a shy man. — H. Rider Haggard

Being white is a job in America. You take that away, you better get the soldiers out. — Dick Gregory

You can make up a quarrel, but it will always show where it was patched. — E.W. Howe

All the earth is to bring praise to God — Sunday Adelaja

By associating with the cat, one only risks becoming richer. — Colette

Now, why would a dead girl lie?
Hey! That sounds like a joke. Why would a dead girl lie? Answer: Because she can't stand up. — Jay Asher

Challenging orthodoxy is a death sentence in Washington. — Stephen Kinzer

With ceremony, with forms of politeness and reassurance, they borrowed the waters of the River and its little confluents to drink and be clean and irrigate with, using water mindfully, carefully. They lived in a land that answers greed with drought and death. A difficult land: aloof yet sensitive. — Ursula K. Le Guin

If your golf instructor were to insist that you shave your head, sleep no more than four hours each night, renounce sex, and subsist on a diet of raw vegetables, you would find a new golf instructor. However, when gurus make demands of this kind, many of their students simply do as directed. — Sam Harris

Part of my growing up was always trying to make my parents proud and always trying to keep them happy. I think part of what held them together was my involvement in sports. — Jeff Garcia

Why did we divorce? I guess you could say we had trouble synchronizing. You know that carnival ride where two cages swing in opposite directions, going higher and higher until they go over the top? That was us. We passed each other all the time, but we never actually stopped in the same place until it was time to get off the ride. — Diane Hammond