"A woman in love is a very poor judge of character."

-- J. G. Holland

#Women Quotes #Character Quotes #Love Is Quotes

“Younger colleagues tended to draw untested self-confidence from their bonuses and prestigious degrees.”

Source : Ron Suskind (2012). “Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President”, p.84, Harper Collins
“Sisters define their rivalry in terms of competition for the gold cup of parental love. It is never perceived as a cup which runneth over, rather a finite vessel from which the more one sister drinks, the less is left over for the others.”

Source : Elizabeth Fishel (1997). “Sisters: Shared Histories, Lifelong Ties”, Red Wheel
“The real scientific study of the distribution of wealth has, we must confess, scarcely begun. The conventional academic study of the so-called theory of distribution into rent, interest, wages, and profits is only remotely related to the subject. This subject, the causes and cures for the actual distribution of capital and income among real persons, is one of the many now in need of our best efforts as scientific students of society.”
“I always liked major-key music quite a bit, and that might have something to do with so many of the musical experiences of my childhood being based around the piano. On piano, it is very easy to move between major and minor and to really see how it looks and to feel how it sounds.”
“We have some fast guys out there. It's always fun to compete with each other at practice in the outfield. It's going to be a fun year out there.”
“The idea of let's all share the pain equally, or let's freeze salaries altogether - it's ass-backwards. It's absolutely ass-backwards.”
“When an argument is over, how many weighty reasons does a man recollect which his heat and violence made him utterly forget?”
“And the fact that I see so many films really seems to amaze certain people.”

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