Pecunious Def Quotes & Sayings

All young people want to kick up their heels and defy convention; most of them would prefer to do it at a not too heavy cost. — Elmer Davis

How many does it take to metamorphose wickedness into righteousness? One man must not kill. If he does, it is murder ... But a state or nation may kill as many as they please, and it is not murder. It is just, necessary, commendable, and right. Only get people enough to agree to it, and the butchery of myriads of human beings is perfectly innocent. But how many does it take? — Adin Ballou

Who is there that ever receives a gift and tries to make bargains about it? Let us, then, return thanks for what He has bestowed on us. Who can tell whether, if we had had a larger share of ability or stronger health, we should not have possessed them to our destruction. — Alphonsus Liguori

His greatest virtue, I think, was his honesty--not only to others but to himself...He demanded freedom of expression and lived in what we consider the most important of moral freedoms; freedom from hate, unconditionally; freedom from all self-pity (even throughout all the pain and bad news); freedom from fear of possibly doing something that might help another more than it might help himself; and freedom from that kind of pride that could make a man feel he was better than his brother or neighbor — Duke Ellington

Leaders are builders. They build bridges to unite, not walls to divide. — Farshad Asl

There were a lot of people shouting out. I know it's not proper tennis etiquette, but this is the first time I've ever played here that the crowd has been behind me like that. Today I felt American, you know, for the first time at the U.S. Open. So I've waited my whole career to have this moment and here it is ... It was great. It was awesome. It was like winning gold. — Venus Williams

Most human predators, however, seek power, not food. To destroy or damage something is to take its power. — Gavin De Becker

Dont switch the blame to her, that's the oldest trick of all cowards — Ayn Rand

Spartan is about this elite unit of the armed forces named the Delta Force. I play a protege of Val Kilmer's character, and he kind of gives me a hard time. — Derek Luke

Conscious business.. business that is conscious of inner and outer worlds.. would therefore be business that takes into account body, mind, and spirit in self, culture, and nature. Put differently, conscious business would be mindful of the way that the spectrum of consciousness operates in the Big Three worlds of self and culture and nature. — Ken Wilber

REAL TRUTH COMES FROM FACT.. — VENKATA NAVEEN KASAGANA

On production floors and in corporate offices, sociological verbiage has replaced a basic understanding of human behavior. — W. Edwards Deming

Charleston had a case of the grandeurs. Up till I was eight or so, I thought the grandeurs was a shitting sickness. Missus was a short, — Sue Monk Kidd

You have to figure out ways to do things on your own. I do my own thing, and I don't pay much attention to what anyone else is doing. — Jerry Jeff Walker