August 2009 Quotes

It does not often happen that the interference of friends will persuade a young man of independent fortune to think no more of a girl, whom he was violently in love with only a few days before.
- Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

As soon as you're born you start dying
So you might as well have a good time
- Cake (Sheep Go To Heaven)

angry people are not always wise
- Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

I often think...that there is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems so forlorn without them.
- Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

if you put a limit on your growth, then you're dead the minute you reach it.
- Paul Desmarais

If you think too much about the kind of man you are, you can get very confused…
- Paul Desmarais

Money Making is a natural tendency in these days, but never forget that the men who make the acquisition of riches their sole object in life are poor creatures at best.
- Sir Frederick Williams-Taylor

They say business is the law of the jungle. I think it's the law of life. If you want to live and you want to prosper, you've go to be ambitious. You've got to be ready to sacrifice leisure and pleasure, and you've got to plan ahead.
- Roy Thomson

Jesus doesn't want me for a sunbeam
Sunbeams are never made like me
- Nirvana (Jesus Doesn't Want Me For a Sunbeam)

Money in itself doesn't bring happiness. But often the pursuit of money does.
- Jack Clyne

Money can be a great comfort. In large quantities, there is nothing transitory about it, as there is about power.
- Peter C Newman (The Canadian Establishment: Volume One)

In all societies, two classes of people appear…a class that rules and a class that is ruled.
- Gaetano Mosca

Your mind can be your best friend; it can keep you amused even when there's nothing to read, nothing to do. But it can turn on you when it's left with no input for too long.
- Stephen King (The Jaunt)

the only way to talk to a fool was to ignore him.
- Stephen King (The Reaper's Image)

It is not possible for a man to stand alone for long against a thousand enemies.
- Stephen King (The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet)

people are rarely at their best when they are alone. They usually put their masks of politeness, good order and good breeding aside.
- Stephen King (The Eyes of the Dragon)

boys are sometimes better at pledging vows than they are at keeping them…
- Stephen King (The Eyes of the Dragon)

when great things happen, they usually happen fast.
- Stephen King (The Eyes of the Dragon)

the logic of all the wise old men in the world cannot often stand against the logic of a boy's heart, if the boy's heart is large and kind and loyal.
- Stephen King (The Eyes of the Dragon)

Obviously, she was a woman of good sense and clear discernment, dedicated to raising her son properly and not to be held responsible for any inherent flaws in the material she had to work with.
- Stephen King (The Eyes of the Dragon)

in high school the business of irrevocable choices began. Doors slipped shut with a faint locking click that was only heard clearly in the dreams of later years.
- Stephen King (Cujo)

In matters of life and death...the right time only comes around once
- Stephen King (Cujo)

People in love do strange things.
- Stephen King (Cujo)

sometimes it's good to feel like a fool.
- Stephen King (Cujo)

Stand before this faceless crowd
I wonder why I bother
So much control by so few
Stumbling from one disaster to another
- Blue Rodeo (Lost Together)

Sometimes it was just better-kinder to keep up a front.
- Stephen King (Cujo)

The world was full of monsters, and they were all allowed to bite the innocent and the unwary.
- Stephen King (Cujo)