Seized Assets Quotes & Sayings

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children. — Ann Radcliffe

It would be an instructive exercise for the skeptical reader to try to frame a definition of taxation which does not also include theft. Like the robber, the State demands money at the equivalent of gunpoint; if the taxpayer refuses to pay, his assets are seized by force, and if he should resist such depredation, he will be arrested or shot if he should continue to resist. — Murray N. Rothbard

Strange how everyone tried to disguise truth with nonsense. Like the slang for death: kicking the bucket, wiped out, snuffed, wasted, blown away. The light touch to dispel the heavy fear. — Robert Bloch

As the days piled up into weeks, and the weeks turned into months, and fall slid into winter, I realized one of the great truths about tragedy: You can dream of disappearing. You can wish for oblivion, for endless sleep or the escape of fiction, of walking into a river with your pockets full of stones, of letting the dark water close over your head. But if you've got kids, the web of the world holds you close and wraps you tight and keeps you from falling no matter how badly you think you want to fall. — Jennifer Weiner

The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number. — Charles Caleb Colton

Brad Green, almost overnight, became the poster boy for the common Wall Street tale - proving once again that greed, most definitely, kills. Giving away about 99% of his fortune was also front page news, but Green barely blinked at having to scrape by with only $200 million. The government seized all five of his homes, his three boats, two jets, a helicopter, 14 cars, and all of his assets except the $200 million he stashed for a rainy day in an offshore bank account. — Phil Wohl

You can't stop going with an old friend on account of rumors, and on the other hand I had no intention of being rumored into marriage. — F Scott Fitzgerald

A little lip gloss goes a long way. — Erin Dionne

Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I'll show you a poorly uniformed leader. — Robert Baden-Powell

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value. — Marcus Tullius Cicero