Affluently Quotes

#1. It is much better to die of hunger unhindered by grief and fear than to live affluently beset with worry, dread, suspicion and unchecked desire.

Epictetus

#2. Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death.

Rupert Holmes

#3. I've never found NBA owners to be deferential. I never considered them to be reliant. All that I do is knock myself out to represent their interests the best way I can and sometimes tell them, as part of my job, what they don't like to hear.

David Stern

#4. Columbia Heights was a poor, messed up area, and the church was in the middle of it. What happened inside was a reflection of the community. I actually saw my first rock concert on the altar of that church [St. Stephen's].

Ian MacKaye

#5. It's difficult to understand why people don't realize that pets are gifts to mankind.

Linda Blair

#6. We were sent to Afghanistan to carry out hugely dangerous missions. But we were also told that we could not shoot that camel drover before he blew up all of us, because he might be an unarmed civilian just taking his dynamite for a walk.

Marcus Luttrell

#7. The only guaranteed way to be a genius is to surround yourself with idiots.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#8. Yo momma so ugly that when she was born the doctor looked at her butt, then at her face, and said, "Twins!

Various

#9. The last time I read piles of erotica by choice, I was fourteen. At that stage, having no experience with men beyond snogging, I took it all as gospel. Now, after I've lived a little, I read the same works again and think, 'Has this author ever really had sex?

Fiona Pitt-Kethley

#10. Practise things you're good at. Keep on top of things you're not so good at, but be world-class at your best. Never think, 'I'm very good at this and that, I can leave those for a bit.'

Brian O'Driscoll

#11. Every child's bedroom is as important as a telescope orbiting the planet earth or a philosopher's study.

Jerry Spinelli

#12. As cool as I want my kids to be, they're just like any other kid. They don't love eggplant unless it is covered in cheese.

Debi Mazar