Confessione De Augustino Quotes

#1. Gold is a great thing to sew into your garments if you're a Jewish family in Vienna in 1939, but I think civilized people don't buy gold, they invest in productive businesses.

Charlie Munger

#2. A gentleman can always be told by the way he speaks to those that he thinks are his inferiors in some respect. His equals he does not wish to offend, his superiors he does not dare to offend, and of those whom he considers his inferiors he would be all the more considerate.

Fanny Jackson Coppin

#3. Every great thing that has been accomplished, and is yet to be accomplished, starts with a dream.

Bill Courtney

#4. No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.

Abraham Verghese

#5. New Orleans has a real spirit. It's the most authentic of all American cities.

Brad Pitt

#6. You never live an inch without involvement and hurting people and fucking yourself everlastingly.

James Agee

#7. He was a mean man, it's true, but he got ahead. A man gets on by working harder than the rest - that's what he used to say - and if he doesn't get anywhere, he hasn't a soul to blame but himself.

Margaret Laurence