Montestbk Quotes & Sayings

On men reprieved by its disdainful mercy, the immortal sea confers in its justice the full privilege of desired unrest. — Joseph Conrad

You're not a bad person ... or you wouldn't be terrified about being a bad person ... The devil doesn't worry about going to hell. — Tiffany Reisz

In early October 2008, after the U.S. government had stepped in to say it would, in effect, absorb all the losses in the financial system and prevent any big Wall Street firm from failing, Burry had started to buy stocks with enthusiasm, for the first time in years. — Michael Lewis

From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny. — Toni Morrison

I must say you do look funny." "And shall I tell you wot you look like? You look like a blinkin' barrel - that's wot you look like."
- Tootoo And Tania, Tootoo with a leg cast and Tania being pregnant — Warren Chetham-Strode

Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around. — Mac Davis

Naked and alone come ye into this world and naked and alone ye shall depart. — Ken Consaul

There is a great superficiality in today's evangelical world. Many Bible-believing Christians share the contemporary case for self-gratification, emotionalism, and anti-intellectualism. Many people who believe in the Bible have never read it. — Gene Edward Veith Jr.

To me, true prosperity begins with feeling good about yourself. It is also the freedom to do what you want to do, when you want to do it. It is never an amount of money; it is a state of mind. Prosperity or lack of it is an outer expression of the ideas in your head. — Louise Hay

Rarely has a man been more comfortable with his own greatness. He spent much of his leisure time penning long and flattering portraits of himself, declaring that there had never 'been a greater botanist or zoologist', and that his system of classification was 'the greatest achievement in the realm of science'. Modestly, he suggested that his gravestone should bear the inscription Princeps Botanicorum, 'Prince of Botanists'. It was never wise to question his generous self-assessments. Those who did so were apt to find they had weeds named after them. — Bill Bryson