Vriethoff Hand Quotes & Sayings

Everything predicted by the enemies of banks, in the beginning, is now coming to pass. We are to be ruined now by the deluge of bank paper. It is cruel that such revolutions in private fortunes should be at the mercy of avaricious adventurers, who, instead of employing their capital, if any they have, in manufactures, commerce, and other useful pursuits, make it an instrument to burden all the interchanges of property with their swindling profits, profits which are the price of no useful industry of theirs. — Thomas Jefferson

Mr. Geronimo's life up to this point had been a journey of a type that was no longer uncommon in our ancestors' peripatetic world, in which people easily became detached from places, beliefs, communities, countries, languages, and from even more important things, such as honor, morality, good judgment, and truth; in which, we may say, they splintered away from the authentic narratives of their life stories and spent the rest of their days trying to discover, or forge, new, synthetic narratives of their own. — Salman Rushdie

It's not whether you're right or wrong, but how much money you make when you're right and how much you lose when you're wrong. — George Soros

We need to accept that the commandments of God aren't just a long list of good ideas. They aren't 'life hacks' from an Internet blog or motivational quotes from a Pinterest board. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

My father was an Episcopal minister, and for 14 years my family lived in China, in a city called Wuchang. We four children spoke Chinese before we spoke English. We left when the communists came, in the early 1930s. I was about 5 years old. — Audrey Meadows

Almost all heroism is designed to make you inert by placing it in a context that you can't possibly act on. — Stefan Molyneux

Its just person after person in every different country that has a life that I can't even imagine and has gone through horror that I can't even imagine. — Angelina Jolie

The simple act of committing to an answer makes the students more engaged and more curious about the outcome. — Chip Heath