Rdea594 Quotes & Sayings

There are people who look at the rules and find ways to structure around them. The more complex the rules, the more opportunities. — Andrew Fastow

From borrowing one gets poorer and from work one gets richer. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

His spirit is like a guttering candle — Geraldine Brooks

Ages of prolonged uncertainty, while they are compatible with the highest degree of saintliness in a few, are inimical to the prosaic every-day virtues of respectable citizens. There seems no use in thrift, when tomorrow all your savings may be dissipated; no advantage in honesty, when the man towards whom you practise it is pretty sure to swindle you; no point in steadfast adherence to the cause, when no cause is important or has a chance of stable victory; no argument in favour of truthfulness, when only supple tergiversation makes the preservation of life and fortune possible. The man whose virtue has no source except a purely terrestrial prudence will in such a world, become an adventurer if he has the courage, and, if not, will seek obscurity as a timid time-server. — Bertrand Russell

I realized that there is no shortage of the love a mother has to offer her children. There is a never-ending supply of love, pride, and affection, and each child will no doubt receive his equal share. Thankfully, it's just the way we are built. There is, however, something that each child doesn't get the same amount of, and that is called attention. — Jill Smokler

The assumption that the problem of love is the problem of an object , not the problem of a faculty . People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love - or to be loved by- is difficult. — Erich Fromm

Hollywood is one place in the world where you can die of encouragement. — Dorothy Parker

If you focus too much on the fools, you will eventually become one ... — Stephanie Adams