Quotes & Sayings About Story Greed Is Curse

Aha!" Lassiter pointed at the boob tube. "You motherfucker! I knew you were the father! — J.R. Ward

Was the heroic creation of a legion of interested and enthusiastic men and women of wide general knowledge and interest; and it lives on today, just as lives the language of which it rightly claims to be a portrait. — Simon Winchester

I will for ever, at all hazards, assert the dignity, independence, and integrity of the English bar; without which, impartial justice, the most valuable part of the English constitution, can have no existence. — Thomas Erskine

Cease to ask what the morrow
will bring forth,
and set down as gain
each day that fortune grants. — Horace

I get really excited if I think I'm going to introduce somebody to a writer they haven't found before and I think they'll love. My favorite books to get as gifts are any that the giver is messianic about. — Monica Ali

A friendship with a woman is not a sin. (It's) a friendship. A romantic relationship with a woman who is not your wife, that is a sin. — Pope Francis

It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application. — Samuel Smiles

I used to get a lift to school every day with a man who was a major in the British Army. — Adrian McKinty

A demoness is helpless when held by her hair. — Howard Schwartz

Politicians love regulating. That's part of the whole power structure. — Clint Eastwood

In those years, that marvelous mess of constellations, nebulae, interstellar gaps and all the rest of the awesome show provoked in me an indescribable sense of nausea, of utter panic, as if I were hanging from earth upside down on the brink of infinite space, with terrestrial gravity still holding me by the heels but about to release me any moment — Vladimir Nabokov

Of course, just because we've heard a spine-chilling, blood-curdling scream of the sort to make your very marrow freeze in your bones doesn't automatically mean there's anything wrong. — Terry Pratchett

I used to work the graveyard shift. — Bradley Cooper