Thriftless People Quotes

#1. The Californians are an idle, thriftless people, and can make nothing for themselves. The country abounds in grapes, yet they buy, at a great price, bad wine made in Boston ...

Richard Henry Dana Jr.

#2. Differing from Newton and Schopenhauer, your ancestor did not think of time as absolute and uniform. He believed it an infinite series of times, in a dizzily growing, ever spreading network of diverging, converging and parallel times.

Jorge Luis Borges

#3. I really don't consider myself to be a conventional Hollywood star. I've never really been marketed by the big studios to do mass market box office films.

Laura Dern

#4. But I keep the kid in my heart, you know, and once in a while she gets out. It's a writer thing. The past is material. You never want to forget it, how it was, how it felt. Nurse

Dean Koontz

#5. The greed was more powerful than the will to do right.

Fisher Amelie

#6. I once had a dream; human was a chosen beast,
domesticated by God to manage the planet earth.

Toba Beta

#7. I do not know why God does some things, but I am convinced that nothing is accidental in his universe.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#8. The ordinary man is the curse of civilization.

John Fowles

#9. The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of the irony of the English, none of their cool poise, none of their manner. But they do have friendliness. Where an Englishman would give you his card, an American would very likely give you his shirt.

Raymond Chandler

#10. Effective communication is built on the cement of trust. And trust is based on trustworthiness, not politics.

Stephen Covey