Pecuniary Gain Quotes

#1. The first book I did - the first successful book - was a kind of a travel book, and publishers in Britain encouraged me to do more.

Bill Bryson

#2. It is a curious fact that the more sophisticated we become the simpler grows our speech.

George Eliot

#3. It's shit punk.[..] That doesn't mean I think punk is shit [...] it means that when someone plays unk ina shit-like manner, it's excruciating. So either find yourself yourself a good punk band or move on, Tom. Because it kills me to say this, but you're actually a tiny bit gifted.

Melina Marchetta

#4. Everybody must have projects all the time. The maximum must be extracted from leisure ... The whole of life must look like a job, and by this resemblance conceal what is not yet directly devoted to pecuniary gain.

Theodor Adorno

#5. Not, at any rate, such a woman as her. It went against the grain with Mr. Sowerby, this seeking of pecuniary assistance from the very woman whose hand he had attempted to gain about a fortnight since; but he allowed his sister to prevail. What

Anthony Trollope

#6. In a State, pecuniary gain is not to be considered to be prosperity, but its prosperity will be found in righteousness.

Confucius

#7. I lay in one of those protracted moments of rapture which scatter this journey like asteriks. A little more, I felt, and I would have gone up like a rocket.

Patrick Leigh Fermor

#8. The action pictures I've been typically involved with, when somebody gets punched, you really feel the punching, and when somebody gets shot, you really feel the shot.

Lorenzo Di Bonaventura

#9. Mindsets, skills and leadership, experience and access, and critical consciousness - we need all four of these things for our students to be the leaders, people and citizens we want them to be.

Wendy Kopp

#10. If you burn away my bones, my love for him would remain, tattooed in the air.

Lia Riley

#11. I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot!

Marilyn Monroe