Duckels Steamboat Quotes

#1. Interests are what drives the actions of individuals at some fundamental level. Furthermore interests are intensely social phenomena. Other individuals have to be taken into account when an actor attempts to realize her interests; there is also the fact that interests are socially defined.

Richard Swedberg

#2. The prosperity of commerce is now perceived and acknowledged by all enlightened statesmen to be the most useful as well as the most productive source of national wealth, and has accordingly become a primary object of their political cares.

Alexander Hamilton

#3. I grew up around books - my grandmother's house, where I lived as a small child, was full of books. My father was a history teacher, and he loved the Russian novels. There were always books around.

John Irving

#4. Life began for me, when I ceased to admire and began to remember.

Willa Cather

#5. Are you a pirate?

Meg Cabot

#6. I walk the world in wonder.

Oscar Wilde

#7. Death is not the opposite of life. Life has no opposite. Death is the opposite of birth.

Eckhart Tolle

#8. Thank you," he says.
"Thank who?"
"I don't know. You?"
"No, not me. Jesus."
"Thank you, Jesus?"
"Yes, Toph, Jesus died for your Christmas fun.

Dave Eggers

#9. For yesterday and for all tomorrows, we dance the best we know.

Kate Seredy

#10. Only the Gods are real.

Neil Gaiman

#11. How is it possible you have caught me off guard, he seemed to ask. Exactly where have I miscalculated the velocities, how have I misjudged the vectors?

Stephanie Vaughn

#12. We get our ethics from our history and judge our history by our ethics.

Ernst Troeltsch

#13. If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister?

Theodore Sturgeon

#14. I'd be happy to play anyone's girlfriend. I'm happy to be working, ever. It's not an intentional thing to play these messed up, crazy characters, but I'm happy to do it 'cause someone's got to.

Madeline Zima