Chessman Wealth Quotes

#1. Is self-interest a bad thing? We want our leaders to be pure and good, but at the same time we want them to be effective, and to be effective you often have to be ruthless and not bound by ideology or the same morals that we pretend to hold ourselves to.

Beau Willimon

#2. So I have never believed that there was any genuine good in the things which everyone prays for; what is more, I have found them empty and daubed with showy and deceptive colours, with nothing inside to match their appearance.

Seneca.

#3. He's standing right in front of me and I miss him like I haven't seen him in years.

Tahereh Mafi

#4. The obligation to amuse and instruct myself was entirely my own, and people who didn't know that were childish people, to be avoided if possible. Certainly not to be trusted.

John Taylor Gatto

#5. You're tired of hearing about it? (racism) Imagine how freaking tiring it must be living through it.

Jon Stewart

#6. America's over. Get out while you still can.

J.M. Porup

#7. The Crusades - the most signal and most durable monument of human folly that has yet appeared in any age or nation.

David Hume

#8. Hook up with you?" He chuckled. "Rainbow? I'd spread you wide open and consume your soul. You'd have nothing left to give to another man.

Kenya Wright

#9. In the wake of my talk with Earl, we had come to a mutual understanding about Lena, the only kind guys ever come to. Meaning, I hadn't brought it up, and they hadn't brought it up, and between us, we somehow all agreed to go on like this indefinitely. Don't ask, don't tell.

Kami Garcia

#10. Horrible things don't happen in crowded places; they happen in the hollows of the world, where it's just a victim and an attacker and no one to hear any screams. "Hang

Sara Raasch

#11. Your life is a book; make it a bestseller.

Shanon Grey

#12. there is no creature more empathetic toward those who suffer social injustice, more compelled by optimism and faith in humankind, or more aspirational in her beliefs than a middle schooler.

Michelle Icard

#13. I never really knew what fine cuisine was when I was a little boy in Canada. For me, Italian food was 'Kraft Dinner' or pizza. When I moved to New York, that's when I discovered all the Italian food.

Sebastian Bach

#14. She had the look in her eye when you kick and kick at the door and it doesn't open, when you write a boy letters and letters and he never loves you, not 'til the day he dies. Not even then.

Daniel Handler