Osburg Anxious Wealth Quotes & Sayings

There is an old Latin quotation in regard to the poet which says 'Poeta nascitur non fit' the translation of which is - the poet is born, not made. — Joseph Devlin

Pops always taught us that family is the strongest unit in the world. If you stick with your family, nobody can break you, nobody can harm you. You'll always have your family. — Mavis Staples

I don't have a drinking problem 'Cept when I can't get a drink. — Tom Waits

Writers are what they write, also what they fail to write. — Diana Trilling

There is always an answer. — Rusty Williamson

I'm always represented as a bit of a class warrior - a bit Down With Men and Down With Middle-Class People. Whereas I'm actually very fond of men and am middle-class. I even went to boarding school in Perthshire. — Denise Mina

Writers 'get started' the day they are born. The minds they bring into the world with them are the amazing machines their stories will come out of, and the more they feed into it, the richer those stories will be. — Lois Duncan

The United Nations is an uplifting experiment, dedicated to raising the standards of living in Africa , the consciences of democracies, and the price of prostitutes in New York — Frank Dane

What caused the gods to fall upon my family like starved lions in a Roman arena? — Vicky Alvear Shecter

I hate it when people come up to me when I'm eating. — Shirley Bassey

I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another. — Irvin D. Yalom

A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him, and which one perchance may safely twitch and pull, but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over and over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Outside, across the putrid moat and under the dark mute trees, I would often lie and dream for hours about what I read in the books; and would longingly picture myself amidst gay crowds in the sunny world beyond the endless forests. — H.P. Lovecraft

We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low. — Desmond Tutu

A healthy environment, a strong economy and energy independent America - that would be the purpose of my presidency, is break the strangle hold that people enjoy on fossil fuels who hate our guts. — Lindsey Graham