The future was clay, to be moulded day by day, but the past was bedrock, immutable.
It will be a honeymoon,Demiris told her.She got the honeymoon but not the wedding.
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms—greed for life, f...
A thousand times more crimes have been committed in the name of love than in the name of hate..
She could go from a blissful euphoria to a desperate misery. She had no control over her emotions.
Was not fond of Americans. He found them rude, materialistic and naïve.
Only in this life you made your own miracles, because god was busy elsewhere.
The voices would not stop. They were a torment, Her past became a kaleidoscope of shifting images that kept racing through her mind.
The great majority of people hate what they’re doing, Mr Douglas. Instead of devising ways to get into something they like, they remain trapped all their lives, like brainless insects. It’s rare to fi...
Power. If you had power, you had food. You had medicine. You had freedom. She saw those around her fall ill and die, and she equated power with life. One day, Kate thought, I’ll have power. No one wil...
No man is an island. What happens to one, happens to us all, for we are all made of clay and stardust. We share the same moments of time. The universal second hand starts its unforgiving sweep toward...
It was as though her emotions had been worn out. She went from hatred to anger and, finally, to a resigned acceptance.
It moves at its own measured pace, for it has no reason to hurry. Tomorrow will come in its own good time.
His main problem, he knew, would be controlling the press.
He devised his own con games. He placed ads in newspapers offering a color picture of the President for a dollar. When he received a dollar, he sent his victim a postage stamp with a picture of the Pr...
Coleridge wrote, Dreams are no shadows, but the very substances and calamities of my life.
But remember, sonny, you can’t con people unless they’re greedy to begin with. W. C. Fields had it right. You can’t cheat an honest man.
Business is a game, played for fantastic stakes, and you're in competition with experts. If you want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the game.
A man was soft when he was hard and hard when he was soft. So it was only necessary to keep him hard until he gave you what you wanted.
That there must be a cure for every disease. Health is natural, disease is unnatural.