Every swindle is driven by a desire for easy money; it's the one thing the swindler and the swindled have in common.
No Ponzi schemer tells anyone exactly how it works. The purpose of a Ponzi scheme is to trick people, to take the money and run.
Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money.
The idea of universal brotherhood is innate in the catholic nature of Chinese thought; it was the dominant concept of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, whom events have proved time and again to be not a visionary but one of the world's greatest realists.
The fall is my favorite time of year. I love the colors. The sun is out, you get warmth on your skin but there's the coolness of the breeze. It's really comfortable.
A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.
Causes of Civil War are also, that the Wealth of the Nation is in too few mens hands, and that no certain means are provided to keep all men from a necessity either to beg, or steal, or be Souldiers.
If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.
Mrs. Wilkinson: Right, Mr. Braithwaite, "The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow". [to herself] Mrs. Wilkinson: Fat chance!
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The Sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus
Sun and wind and beat of sea, Great lands stretching endlessly... Where be bonds to bind the free? All the world was made for me!
But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
Someone who has got something of his own only understands the pain than anyone without his own stand and pain got anything under the sun.
The moving light, rejoicing in its strength, Sped from the pyre of pine, and urged its way, In golden glory, like some strange new sun...
As the sailor locates his position on the sea by "shooting" the sun, so we may get our moral bearings by looking at God. We must begin with God.
can't even sleep through the night without you and those sun-dried ginger ale complected limbs crocheted into my thighs...
My beginnings in the Southwest are clear and palpable. My beginnings here made me pay attention to where the sun is, where the winds are, the power of the site... I take that baggage with me.
Tell me the story.. About how the sun loved the moon so much.. That she died every night.. Just to let him breathe...
I know that oblivion is inevitable, and the sun will swallow the earth and I am in love with you Hazel grace.
Brushing the clouds away from my eyes, I see clarity in the raindrop and beauty in the first ray of morning sun... Life is strange and wondrous...