Venality Def Quotes & Sayings

I've gone from a two-pitch guy to a four-pitch guy. — Tim Lincecum

The books were a private part of me that I carried inside and guarded and didn't talk to anybody about; as long as I had the books I could convince myself I was different from the others and my life wasn't quite as stupid and pointless. — MacDonald Harris

I hate that we're always called "the all-female Ghostbusters," because you wouldn't refer to the original as "the all-male Ghostbusters." — Paul Feig

Everything was such a damned nice idea when it was an idea. — Tim O'Brien

To love another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task ... tremendous and foolish and human. — Louise Erdrich

Money is easy to hide. — Herve Falciani

Yet one of the most important things we have to learn is how to cope with abundance and with our hunger for yet more abundance — Jennifer Michael Hecht

One's sanctions for truth and goodness are established largely by individual preferences. — Ken Wilber

Spaying is a compromise in terms of reverence for life, but perhaps a necessary one in a society which kills millions of dogs and cats a year in "animal shelters". — James Marcus

The check is over twelve hundred dollars. No fucking way. I gape at him as he pulls out a wad of cash, paying in strictly hundred dollar bills, not even seeming bothered by the cost. "That's nuts," I hiss. "I could eat for like a year off of that much money." "Three years if you just eat your noodles, — J.M. Darhower

[Time was] an accordion, all the air squeezed out of it as you grew old. — Helen Hooven Santmyer

Closeness to another person is like a fear of falling off a building to me. It's really, like, physically painful, and it's a brand of crazy I don't appreciate having. — Adam Duritz

Rome sees some bloke from the London School of Economics on the telly while he's flicking through the channels. This chap makes the point that governments don't actually do anything for us. The only thing that makes them boss is that they control all the currency. Historically, anyone proposing an alternative to cash is brutally suppressed, but then historically they haven't got the Internet, which makes such things much easier to set up; much harder to crack down on. — Alan Moore

A SOFT fall rain slips down through the trees and the smell of ocean is so strong that it can almost be licked off the air. — Sebastian Junger

Be that as it may, a gentleman doesn't continue to press his
attentions on a lady who can't return them."
"Then, as I see it, you have two problems, my lord," Harry said.
Tony's eyes narrowed.
"One, that the lady does, in fact, return my attentions, and two" - Harry turned to meet the earl's
gaze - "I am no gentleman. — Elizabeth Hoyt