The Last Tycoon Book Quotes & Sayings

I am most thankful for what I don't have, for had my life's wish list been filled in the manner I had chosen I would be steeped in meaningless trinkets verses bathed in God's treasures. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

... it occurs to me how often laughter accompanies tears — David Arnold

The place where you are is the one where my mind must live, wherever I might travel. — George Eliot

By privileges, immunities, or prerogatives to give unlimited swing to the passions of individuals, and then to hope that they will restrain them, is about as reasonable as to expect that the tiger will spare the hart to browse upon the herbage. — Charles Caleb Colton

If you ask which of the scenarios I think is most dangerous, though, I will give a different answer. In that form of the question, I regard a nuclear attack, terrorist-generated or otherwise, as the most threatening combination of likelihood and long-term damage to modern life today. — John L. Casti

The fools among us are presented to be wise and the wise among us are presented to be fools. — Santosh Kalwar

Soul is just that inner spirit. I use that inner spirit for whatever it is I do. — Gladys Knight

There are benefits in confrontation. Even though we don't like it most of the time, but people who obey this demand of life, live in peace better than the others. They avoid conflict and fights, better than others. They are able to identify their friends and enemies faster than others. — Sunday Adelaja

The Secret to finding someone to Love is
finding someone you Like. — Renee Rentmeester

The elements of instruction . . . should be presented to the mind in childhood, but not with any compulsion; for a freeman should be a freeman too in the acquisition of knowledge . . . . Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement; this will better enable you to find out the natural bent of the child (536). — Will Durant

Laws of physics laws of love of time and space and the (in)between place (in)between you and me and where we are lost and looking looking and lost — Kami Garcia

I really want to keep on opening doors for myself, and others who want to come in. — Genesis Rodriguez

Than you'll see the world as it is : infinte. — William Blake

In most places and times in human history, babies have had not just one person but lots of people around who were really paying attention to them around, dedicated to them, cared to them, were related to them. I think the big shift in our culture is the isolation in which many children are growing up. — Alison Gopnik

The allegation that English girls had no conversation must be true; but theirs was a SPEAKING silence. Their eyes and smiles were eloquent! She hoped it would teach their own girls that they need not chatter like magpies. — Edith Wharton