Pennilessness Quotes & Sayings

Losing is not fun. I know the fans don't like it, but they don't have to watch it every day. I have to watch it every day. I don't like watching bad teams. — Jerry Reinsdorf

Every action done by nature is done in the shortest way. — Leonardo Da Vinci

I sometimes find myself thinking: wouldn't it be far less complicated to have a job like that? To sell things? To order cheese and salamis and all the rest and not worry about what we should do and how we should do it? — Alexander McCall Smith

My parents never pushed me to ski race. It was my choice and something I really wanted to do. I would have rebelled if they had pushed me, and I wouldn't have had the same passion. — Ted Ligety

Any work is creative work if done by a thinking mind. — Ayn Rand

When we don't get what we want, there's a legitimate grieving, and then the spiritual journey truly begins, because not getting what we want breaks our self-reference; and once that is broken, we are aware that we are a part of a larger whole. It changes everything. — Mark Nepo

I was thinking earlier that to know this city you must first become penniless, because pennilessness (real pennilessness, I mean not having $2 for the subway) forces you to walk everywhere and you see the city best on foot. — Emily St. John Mandel

It is indeed one of the principal drawbacks of every kind of interventionism that it is so difficult to reverse the process. — Ludwig Von Mises

Miami, in many ways, is a quintessentially American city. The juxtaposition of showy wealth with dire pennilessness, the tussle of glitz and decay doesn't come any more marked than here. — Tibor Fischer

In that moment of salvation, of belief, they are opening their lives to the person of Jesus. — Paul Washer

It's probably not an accident that the films that I care about happen to be about issues that matter to me, stories that I want to tell. If you're going to spend two years of your life on something it has to matter to you, you have to be passionate about it. — Angelina Jolie

Do you give up?" Shezmu bellowed.
"No!" I yelled. "No, we don't give up. We will name you. Just ... Gosh, you're quite well muscled, arn't you? Do you work out? — Rick Riordan

It is better to be a true disciple than a false follower. — Lailah Gifty Akita

South Africa's subprime crisis OP-ED — Anonymous

You are beautiful and you matter. — Laura Regan

Life's waters flow from darkness, Search the darkness, don't run from it. — Rumi

Intelligence is a moral category. — Theodor Adorno