Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it's about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life, as well. It's about getting up, getting well, ...
Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life. LSD shows you that there’s another side to the coin, and you can’t remember it when it wears off, but you know it. It reinforced my sense of what was important�...
There is clear evidence from internal investigations in the past that some raters actually see themselves as adversaries to veterans. If a claim can be minimized, then the government has saved money, regardless of the need of the veteran. Just recent...
Are engineers better at business than business people? It’s debatable. Business people certainly seems to have bigger houses, drive fancier cars, wear nicer clothes and have better looking mates. Engineers lack the time management skills to spend t...
We are born and we die; and between these two most important events in our lives more or less time elapses which we have to waste somehow or other. In the end it does not seem to matter much whether we have done so in making money, or practicing law,...
I've always felt Lex Luthor is intensely threatened by any status or distinction he can’t buy, hence the antipathy to Superman's powers and Bruce Wayne's status as old money. Money is Luthor's superpower, and anything he can’t obtain or control w...
I disagree. You want to bring back someone that you've lost. You might want money. Maybe you want women. Or, you might want to protect the world. These are all common things people want. Things that their hearts desire. Greed may not be good, but it'...
Ninety-nine per cent of traditional English literature concerns people who never have to worry about money at all. We always seem to be watching or reading about emotional crises among folk who live in a world of great fortune both in matters of luck...
Mr. Potter: What have you been doing lately, George? Playing the market with the company's money? George Bailey: No, of course not. Mr. Potter: Or is it a woman you're involved with? It's all over town that you've been giving money to Violet Bick. Ge...
Marius: [about Cosette] Eponine, find her for me! Éponine: What will you give me? Marius: Anything! Éponine: Got you all excited now, but God knows what you see in her! Aren't you all delighted now? [Marius offers her money] Éponine: No, I don't w...
Léon: Tony... All the money I make, that you keep for me... Tony: You need some money? Léon: No, just curious... Because, I've been working a long time... And I havent done anything with my... I thought maybe someday I could [uncomfortable] Léon: ...
Whenever I travel to a poor country, I try to help at least one person. Usually, that person helps me just as much - I can find a local poor person to be my guide or my interpreter. That person makes money from me, I make money from him or her, we bo...
The economy is getting tough yet we all needs to be happy. It may be difficult to get a job yet we needs to be happy. We may not have money in our pocket yet we needs to be happy so what can you offer to make someone happy even when you don't have a ...
And uh, forget the money. Because, if you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you will spend your life wasting your time. You will be doing things you don’t like doing in order to go on living, that is, in order to do things you...
A Person spends a whole day, five days a week or more, working hard to make money, but few ever think beyond this fact. They live from pay cheque to pay cheque, drifting through life, and only realize too late that what they have been doing was not w...
Be always a little afraid so that you never will be much afraid.
Who begins too much accomplishes little.
Do not speak of secret matters in a field that is full of little hills.
Come a little closer when your sword is too short.
A little rain each day will fill the rivers to overflowing.
What little Johnny has not learned, big John will not know.
