Stock Boys Quotes & Sayings

There are 400,000 species of beetles on this planet, but only 8,000 species of mammals. — John B. S. Haldane

The other would be the real one, composed entirely of young enthusiasts in camouflage uniforms, who would not be put on display, but from whom impossible efforts would be demanded and to whom all sorts of tricks would be taught. That's the army in which I should like to fight. — Jean Larteguy

It would be nice to believe that love should be dished out in a fair way so that everyone got some. But that wasn't how it was going to be for me. — Margaret Atwood

Somewhere among them - those green and untested boys - lay much of the stock from which he would have to select a crew capable of going all the way. The trick would be to find which few of them had the potential for raw power, the nearly superhuman stamina, the indomitable willpower, and the intellectual capacity necessary to master the details of technique. And which of them, coupled improbably with all those other qualities, had the most important one: the ability to disregard his own ambitions, to throw his ego over the gunwales, to leave it swirling in the wake of his shell, and to pull, not just for himself, not just for glory, but for the other boys in the boat. — Daniel James Brown

Knowledge was more powerful than fear. Love was stronger than hate. — Lauren Myracle

The inactive must justify their sloth by picking nits with those making an attempt - — Dave Eggers

War is not a thing one wants. — Hans Frank

If it feels this good to have this on my arm, I can't imagine how it's going to feel to get a ring on your finger. — Jamie McGuire

All my legitimate jobs were embarrassing. I used to be stock boy at an Odd-Lot, making $35 a day. — Method Man

Probably the worst time in a person's life is when they have to kill a family member because they are the devil. But otherwise it's been a pretty good day. — Emo Philips

Twelve years ago I made a mock
Of filthy trades and traffics;
I considered what they meant by stock;
I wrote delightful sapphics;
I knew the streets of Rome and Troy,
I supped with fates and Fairies
Twelve years ago I was a boy,
A happy boy at Drury's. — Winthrop Mackworth Praed

Mutual funds give people the sense that they're investing with the big boys and that they're really not at a disadvantage entering the stock market. — Ron Chernow

I'm too tired to fight against you anymore, too tired to say you are wrong. Too tired apologizing, keeping me uping all nighting- criming by wasting my precious timing. Straggling against what I once called charming. — Coco J. Ginger

Does it count as 66 books on GoodReads if I have read the whole Bible? — Michael Wright

Agnes like she was a baby bird. Dabney felt a combination of — Elin Hilderbrand

Which are you? Are you the single woman who is just barely getting by who will become an insignificant spinster one day? Or are you the kind that's more dangerous, leading the lost further into their lostness? Or is your singleness fueled by the power of the Spirit so that you are one who uses it for good, leaving a legacy of lives changed? — Dannah Gresh

The kids I talk to are convinced their generation will make the best music. And the greatest artists have yet to be discovered. I walk around with that thought every day. — L.A. Reid

We're all so preposterous, aren't we. Holding onto our traumas, our agonies, our small dramas and using them to sabotage that which we so want, and actually deserve. ' (Petra Dussman in 'The Moment') — Douglas Kennedy

If I hired one of the stock boys to chase me around the store with a licorice whip, I'd be thin by Christmas. — Jennette Fulda

Power is like a house of cards. Leave it alone and it will stand forever. But if you try to build it higher and higher, sooner or later it is bound to collapse. — Felix O. Hartmann

When Martha gets out she'll be under house arrest in her big $40 million mansion in Bedford. Boy, that'll teach her. She's only allowed out of the house for doctors visits, grocery shopping, or to dump more stock. — David Letterman

Only a dreamer or a fool would pick a stock at random and expect it to take off like a space ship from its launching pad. Certainly this has happened - about as often as a dime-store clerk has become a Hollywood star or a boy born in a log cabin has been elected President of the United States - just often enough, that is, to keep alive the Great American Dream. — Catherine Crook De Camp