Riegel Quotes

#1. For some parents, having children meant full absolution from any future mistakes. My father wouldn't permit himself to be wrong. He shifted the blame of misplaced scissors, rising interest rates, and iceless ice cube trays all unto Riegel and me.

Amber Dermont

#2. Money power means budget power and it is folly to imagine that the citizen can control government unless he can control its budget.

E.C. Riegel

#3. The word suffering is full and whole and perfect as a pierced heart, sweet, rushing and tender ... Suffering is the joy of someone about to be martyred, illumination of something given up as an offer.

Lydia Millet

#4. The greatest enemy of mankind is his ignorance of the inherent money power in all of us. When the realization of this comes to man, he will like Samson, push down the walls of his prison.

E.C. Riegel

#5. Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

Johannes Kepler

#6. No town can live peacefully whatever its laws when its citizens do nothing but feast and drink and tire themselves out in the cares of love

Plato

#7. Until we realize that our money power is our sovereign power we cannot act as sovereigns

E.C. Riegel

#8. I met my husband through a mutual friend. He invited me over for dinner and cooked this meal that knocked my socks off - and maybe knocked off a few other pieces of clothing off as well.

Eden Riegel

#9. One of the first major storylines that 'All My Children' featured was Erica Kane, a rebellious daughter, and her mother, sort of a matriarchal type, who was trying to guide her daughter to a safer place.

Eden Riegel

#10. Composing means you have a beginning, middle and end and a fluidity to what you're doing.

Sandra Bullock

#11. Startups on the inside are always badly broken.

Sam Altman

#12. Money power cannot be separated from democratic power without miscarriage and ensuing frustration - political and economic. Democracy implies the sovereignty of man; and, since man cannot be sovereign without the money power, there can not be democracy under the political money system.

E.C. Riegel

#13. Mr. Obama would be a disheartening president even during a super boom, with his grim demeanor and empty rhetoric, as well as his obvious hatred of business bravado.

Paul Johnson

#14. Life is a process of losing our illusions, until we finally lose the illusion that we're alive.

Ashleigh Brilliant

#15. Oh, sweet little huggles," Mama said. "Remember what Pampy used to say when he wanted to be brave?

Lenora Riegel

#16. Money can be issued only in the act of buying, and can be backed only in the act of selling. Any buyer who is also a seller is qualified to be a money issuer. Government, because it is not and should not be a seller, is not qualified to be a money issuer.

E.C. Riegel

#17. At 11, 12, I thought I was clumsy, ugly, a mess, an unappealing person, but I did have the gift of the gab. I had the school record at Haberdashers for consecutive detentions for simply speaking out of turn.

Simon Schama