Leona Helmsley Quotes

#1. Say what you will about Leona Helmsley, when it comes to standing trial, she's twice the man Jim Bakker is.

David Letterman

#2. I try not to get political, I don't want to get religious, I don't want to get controversial, I just want to have a show that relates to everybody.

Gabriel Iglesias

#3. Is the gratitude that flows out of your life as abounding as the grace that has flowed into your life?

Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#4. I'm a very firm believer that a liar is a cheat and a thief and a crook. I don't like liars. I never lie. I always told my own child, If you murder somebody, tell me. I'll help you hide the body. But don't you lie to me.

Leona Helmsley

#5. If a woman is successful, she'd better duck, because they'll be out to get her.

Leona Helmsley

#6. Nothing extraordinary is achieved through ordinary means.

Scott Belsky

#7. Moments are fleeting. Memories are permanent. Love is forever.

Lynda Cheldelin Fell

#8. Once is never. Twice is always.

James S.A. Corey

#9. It's become a cliche to think of marriage as a disaster area and a war zone.

Tim Daly

#10. I'm starting to mistrust my judgment.

Leona Helmsley

#11. I've always wanted to be the biggest real estate man to come down the pike.

Leona Helmsley

#12. I learned without her saying a word that there are truly many ways to pray, and lighting a candle is one of them.

Pat Schneider

#13. We don't pay taxes. The little people pay taxes.

Leona Helmsley

#14. During the first nineteen months of my life I had caught glimpses of broad, green fields, a luminous sky, trees and flowers which the darkness that followed could not wholly blot out. If we have once seen, "the day is ours, and what the day has shown."

Helen Keller

#15. A lot of what we experience as strength comes from knowing what to do with weakness.
Nickel and Dimed On (Not) Getting By in America

Barbara Ehrenreich

#16. I keep following this sort of hidden river of my life, you know, whatever the topic or impulse which comes, I follow it along trustingly. And I don't have any sense of its coming to a kind of crescendo, or of its petering out either. It is just going steadily along.

William Stafford

#17. Classical buildings endure because they are loved, admired and accepted, and enjoy an innate adaption to human needs and purposes.

Roger Scruton

#18. Money enhances a man, yes, as beauty enhances a woman.

Leona Helmsley

#19. PBNP was Perdido Beach Nuclear Power.

Michael Grant

#20. We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes.

Leona Helmsley

#21. I don't hire people who have to be told to be nice. I hire nice people.

Leona Helmsley

#22. There's nothing deader than a dead love.

Leona Helmsley