Top 100 Penny Jar Sayings
#1. I'm guilty of being fascinated by gadgets and toys and technology, but any penny that I spend, I try to make it be a part of what I do for a living. Because then you are forwarding. You are forwarding that art, forwarding that career ahead.
Jeff Dunham
#2. Jethro Winston was my forever person. I would never be strong enough to let him go.
Penny Reid
#3. The money pigs of capitalist democracy: Money has made slaves of us. Money is the curse of mankind. It smothers the seed of everything great and good. Every penny is sticky with sweat and blood.
Joseph Goebbels
#4. In America, they think that you become more powerful the more magic you use."
"Just like fossil fuels." Penny glances over at me, then snorts.
"Don't look so surprised," I say. "I know about fossil fuels.
Rainbow Rowell
#5. Why be a saint unless you could also be a martyr?
Louise Penny
#6. [E]very comfort that the saints have in this world is an earnest penny to them of those eternal mercies that the Lord has provided for them.
Jeremiah Burroughs
#7. Ever' man wants life to be a fine thing, and a easy. 'Tis fine, boy, powerful fine, but 'taint easy.
--Penny Baxter to his son, Jody
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
#8. All that had been trivial, that had been comforting and familiar and safe, now seemed to be strapped with explosives.
Louise Penny
#9. E-mail is a modern Penny Post: the world is a single city with a single postal rate.
Anne Fadiman
#10. It does not pay away a penny from you to say "am sorry", "I won't do that again"! It does not take away your integrity to appreciate the very little that you have obtained from someone, even if it's not much! True humility speaks "little is enough if God is in it.
Israelmore Ayivor
#11. I do feel it's important to entertain people. I try to.
Penny Marshall
#12. No one expects an eighty-five-year-old Navy SEAL stripper. No one. And that was the beauty of George.
Penny Reid
#14. Things are strongest where they're broken.
Louise Penny
#15. You are a man with a protective instinct. To care that deeply is a blessing. But like most blessings, it can also be a curse.
Louise Penny
#16. I was tired of seeing the Graces always depicted as beautiful young things. I think wisdom comes with age and life and pain. And knowing what matters.
Louise Penny
#17. Chief Superintendent Arnot might hold power, but Armand Gamache was the more powerful man.
Louise Penny
#18. Things were not as they seemed. The known world was shifting, reforming. Everything he'd taken as a given, a fact, as real and unquestioned, had fallen away. But
Louise Penny
#19. Her voice changed slightly as she remembered, "But most he loved a happy human face.
Louise Penny
#20. Be careful. You're making hurting a habit. Spreading it around won't lessen your pain, you know. Just the opposite.
Louise Penny
#21. Oh . . ." I nodded faintly, my throat suddenly dry. I attempted a smile.
Penny Reid
#22. Stop what?"
"Stop having an entire discussion without me.
Penny Reid
#23. There's something up ahead,' I said. 'Something really bad.' 'So of course we're heading straight for it,' said Penny. 'At some point, we're going to have to sit down and have a serious talk about making better lifestyle decisions.
Simon R. Green
#24. The truth is that I am not a frump ... I just enjoy being laid back.
Penny Marshall
#25. No one around me was obsessed with Fred Astaire except for me. It just snowballed, really. I started with tap lessons. When I didn't have tap shoes, I taped nickels on the bottom of my penny loafers.
David Hallberg
#26. It's a shame that creativity and sloth look exactly the same.
Louise Penny
#27. Right ... here's what we'll do: I'll get the kids. You take your shower. After homework and playtime, I'll challenge them to shots until they pass out. Then we'll eat the rest of their Halloween candy while binge-watching Game of Thrones.
Penny Reid
#28. Yeti. Big Foot. There was some old creature his grandmother had told him about. The Green Man. Half man, half tree. This was him. Beauvoir gripped his stick.
Louise Penny
#29. Italians who speak Italian should be illegal, or at least come with warning labels - may make your panties explode.
Penny Reid
#30. Nobody prays for the heartless, nobody gives another penny for the selfish
Pierce The Veil
#31. Never voted to spend one penny of Social Security money.
Ron Paul
#32. Many of the snarly bad-tempered teachers whom we remember with hatred were really nice people soured by years of anxiety and penny-pinching.
Gilbert Highet
#33. My heart keeps finding new ways to love you.
Penny Reid
#34. Yep. His epic good looks without succumbing to the adorable label had made him a man-unicorn in my mind. Or a merman. Or a Loch Ness Monstman. He was a mystical creature.
Penny Reid
#35. In trying to capture the beautiful mystery, this monk had invented written music. Not yet notes, what he'd written became known as neumes.
Louise Penny
#36. There's a huge fucking missile launcher in our backyard and apparently the only thing between us and Armageddon is some guy who's afraid of a duck.
Louise Penny
#37. Feminism has never just been about liberating women from men, but about freeing every human being from the straitjacket of gender oppression.
Laurie Penny
#39. There is a stillness that accompanies the death of a loved one. Everything becomes quieter, but it's not just sound that is dimmed. Movement, action, perception, emotion - everything is distant and removed. Maybe
Penny Reid
#40. Duane pulled a chair out for me and claimed the seat adjacent as I sat. Or, I tried to sit. I didn't know quite how to sit. Sitting suddenly felt weird. I was super-conscious of my limbs.
Penny Reid
#41. Maybe this was now normal for Olivier. Maybe every now and then he simply wept. Not in pain or sadness. The tears were just overwhelming memories, rendered into water, seeping out.
Louise Penny
#42. It's ok to be gifted at using people if you're using them for good.
Penny Reid
#43. Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.
Plutarch
#44. The day Apollo 11 landed, I knew men would walk on Mars in my lifetime. I'm no longer nearly so sure. The last budget put forward in Canada contained not a penny for Mars.
Spider Robinson
#45. I walked into Elizabeth's apartment feeling like a zombie. I needed brains.
Penny Reid
#46. Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains; then shall thy pocket begin to thrive; creditors will not insult, nor want oppress, nor hungerness bite, nor nakedness freeze thee
Benjamin Franklin
#47. How much more courage it took to be kind than to be cruel.
Louise Penny
#48. ... believing sarcasm and rude remarks kept the monsters at bay. They didn't.
Louise Penny
#49. Dedication Do you love Janie and Quinn? If so, this book is dedicated to you. *fist bump* *high five* *bottom pat* ... too far?
Penny Reid
#50. She'd arrived a self-sufficient city woman, and now she was covered in snow, sitting on a bench beside a crazy person, and she had a duck on her lap. Who was nuts now?
Louise Penny
#51. I'm sure you're used to the deafening sound of underwear hitting the floor every time you enter the room.
Penny Reid
#52. Penny, how can you behave like a total idiot?"
Anne giggled, "I have no pride when it comes to winning back people I love.
Anya Wylde
#53. She almost cried out with relief when she saw the eyes of the boy who had never backed down. She saw the eyes of the boy who had first stepped forward to fight Orc and later Caine and Drake and Penny. She saw Sam Temple. Her Sam Temple.
Michael Grant
#54. I know how precious life is. You had no right to take Renaud's and you have no right to take your own now. Not over this. Too much death. It needs to stop.
Louise Penny
#55. Quinn, that's the ring from downstairs!" I hissed in a loud whisper because I was afraid of the answer. "Did you steal that ring?
Penny Reid
#56. One of the elements of writing that is most delightful to the engaged reader is the element of surprise. And one of the ways to surprise the reader is to set up an expectation that you then veer away from it at the last moment. A stitch in time saves the penny earned. Or something like that.
Douglas Wilson
#57. I really do believe that being naturally beautiful is what is inside and what shines through.
Penny Lancaster
#58. I like the concept of the penny plan - not for the military because the military we have to build up. But we can save probably in many case more than a penny if you look at it. I mean, the penny plan is a pretty good plan, and it's a pretty simple plan.
Donald Trump
#59. I needed to save every penny ... I needed to be strong, and needed to find some way to secure a future. That's why I am always conservative. I never forget to maintain stability while advancing, and I never forget to advance while maintaining stability.
Li Ka-shing
#60. Grace does not work like a penny in a slot machine. Grace will move you only when you want it to move you, and only when you let it move you. The supernatural order supposes the freedom of the natural order, but it does not destroy it.
Fulton J. Sheen
#61. I hope you wander into a hornet's nest and die of an acetylcholineoverdose," I spat.
"You say the prettiest things.
Penny Reid
#62. Whatever your dream is, every extra penny you have needs to be going to that.
Will Smith
#64. I noticed, rich people never toss away their pennies in their driveways, middle-class always chuck them there, and stray dogs lick up what little pennies they find on poverty ground.
Anthony Liccione
#65. The driver asked me where I wanted to go; I wanted to say Las Vegas but I didn't think that would go over very well
Penny Reid
#66. I can't do anything about the fact
that our dreams don't align. And since
I do love you, I want you to live yours.
Penny Reid
#67. Without thinking, I asked, "Are you afraid of temptation?"
He shook his head. "God, no. Just being with you, just seeing you. Fuck." He mostly swallowed the expletive, his hips rolling in a way that made me think the movement was instinctual, then added on a rush, "You breathing tempts me.
Penny Reid
#68. When put in a room with both parents, would almost always embrace the abuser.
Louise Penny
#69. Why should we remain innocent of what lurks in the shadows? How can we live in the world if we don't understand how dark and brutal it can be?
Penny Matthews
#70. It's better for me to go up against someone's passion with my passion and then clarifying something that he wrote. Then I know how to work around certain things.
Penny Marshall
#71. Kids who grow up in radically different environments are always going to have different comfort levels with regard to a topic. If you don't live near a train track, it's hard to squash a penny that way, and if you live in an apartment in New York City, it may be difficult to get to drive a car.
Gever Tulley
#72. The only thing money really buys? ... Space. A bigger house, a bigger car, a larger hotel room. First-class plane tickets. But it doesn't even buy comfort. No one complains more than the rich and entitled. Comfort, security, ease. None of them come with money.
Louise Penny
#73. Movie stars are insecure like everyone else. That's why they go into acting!
Penny Marshall
#74. Some other brown stuff that might not be mud into her tangled hair. All around, villagers wandered with their baskets of brightly colored eggs, looking for the perfect hiding places. Ruth Zardo sat on the bench in the middle of the green tossing
Louise Penny
#75. I reached for something to hold on to and ended up leaning against the wall behind me
Penny Reid
#76. I'm not letting you leave this car
until we make it to second base. At least."
"Jess, you know how good I am at baseball, right?
Penny Reid
#77. The last thing I remember from last night was blabbing to Penny about how much I love Michael Keaton as Batman before someone must have ushered me off to bed.
Karina Halle
#78. Unable to meet his steady gaze, I shifted my attention to the stream and cursed myself for being a terrible liar. Actually, allow me to clarify that: I'm great at lying to myself. I'm super crummy at lying to others.
Penny Reid
#79. He was so handsome I felt like filing a civil lawsuit against his parents, claiming punitive damages, pain and suffering to my psyche.
Penny Reid
#80. He reminded me of the Viking god Thor, if Thor had been a reclusive federal game warden from Texas with excellent manners.
Penny Reid
#81. If you marry for money, you end up earning every penny.
Jill Mansell
#82. Corruption and brutality are modeled and expected and rewarded. It becomes normal. And anyone who stands up to it, who tells them it's wrong, is beaten down. Or worse.
Louise Penny
#83. As a child psychiatrist, I knew too much about the statistics of foster care - less than one percent graduate college with a bachelor's degree, more than fifty percent of foster kids end up homeless after reaching eighteen, and most are dead by twenty-six.
Penny Reid
#84. It doesn't take a brain surgeon ... or a cardiologist ... or a pediatrician ... or even a policy wonk to figure out that a penny's worth of preventive care is worth many dollars of sick care.
Heidi Murkoff
#85. Businesses need to define what they need so training providers can offer up the right training.
Penny Pritzker
#86. I once went on a date with a guy who chewed with his mouth open. It was like sitting across from a garbage disposal.
Penny Reid
#88. There is a princess in all our heads: she must be destroyed.
Laurie Penny
#89. I have never earned one penny from any pharmaceutical company. I will never accept one penny from them either. Ever.
Michael Specter
#90. They listened with flattering attention. He was filled with enthusiasm. He began at the beginning and tried to tell it as he thought Penny would do. Half-way through, he looked down at the cake. He lost interest in the account.
"Then Pa shot him," he ended abruptly.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
#91. ... the pain of neuralgia ... she knew what they thought. That she was cold. Couldn't feel. But in fact she felt too much. Too deeply.
Louise Penny
#92. She'd never actually smiled at a family reunion before. It felt odd.
Louise Penny
#94. Men live simply, but are not simple. Boys are simple, but do not live simply.
Penny Reid
#95. Every penny from 'Gossip Girl,' my pension, my stocks has been spent fighting for my children.
Kelly Rutherford
#96. Love was never enough, not without mutual respect and a great deal of drudgery and effort. And even then, it wasn't enough. Wanting each other, being open to change, pushing each other to improve and grow
for the better
working to deserve each other, was the key.
Penny Reid
#97. When Peter walked into a room he always swept it until he found Clara. And then he relaxed.
Louise Penny
#98. Work really hard, think carefuly about how you spend every penny, and be absolutely true to your own vision of your clothes and your brand. It has to be personal.
Patrick Grant
#99. We are most awake to the world and to our own longings and desires when we suffer.
Penny Reid
#100. But I understand your doubts. They're what make you a great man, not your certainties.
Louise Penny
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