"Obviously you have to make a profit to put out a newspaper. I'm not an idiot. But when the margins are in excess of 25 per cent you're talking about greed."

-- Carl Hiaasen

#Talking Quotes #Greed Quotes #Excess Quotes

“People have never lost what they think they have.”

Source : Ivy Compton-Burnett (1972). “Parents and children”
“For several years I worried a lot about protecting an image, but today I have understood that the image cannot be preconceived.”
“My soul was a burden, bruised and bleeding. It was tired of the man who carried it, but I found no place to set it down to rest. Neither the charm of the countryside nor the sweet scents of a garden could soothe it. It found no peace in song or laughter, none in the company of friends at table or in the pleasures of love, none even in books or poetry.... Where could my heart find refuge from itself? Where could I go, yet leave myself behind?”
“I don't deal with hypotheticals. I deal with reality.”

Source : Source: www.cbsnews.com
“A writer who has never explored words, who has never searched, seeded, sieved, sifted through his knowledge and memory...dictiona ries, thesaurus, poems, favorite paragraphs, to find the right word, is like someone owning a gold mine who has never mined it.”
“We are Jesus Christ's; we belong to him. But even more, we are increasingly him. He moves in and commandeers our hands and feet, requisitions our minds and tongues. We sense his rearranging: debris into the divine, pig's ear into silk purse. He repurposes bad decisions and squalid choices. Little by little, a new image emerges.”
“Baseball is simply my platform to elevate Jesus Christ, my Lord and Savior.”
“Don't have stories; have sentences.”

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