"There's nothing of any importance in life - except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are, will come from that. It's the only measure of human value. All the codes of ethics they'll try to ram down your throat are just so much paper money put out by swindlers to fleece people of their virtues. The code of competence is the only system of morality that's on a gold standard."

-- Ayn Rand

#Money Quotes #People Quotes #Trying Quotes

“The interest which lay behind Federalism was that of well-to-do citizens in a stable political and social order, and this interest aroused them to favor and to seek some form of political organization which was capable of protecting their property and promoting its interest.”

Source : Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.30, Cosimo, Inc.
“I should love to do a novel, about one abnormal character seeing present-day life, very ordinary life, yet arresting through it, abnormality, until at the end the reader sees, and with little reluctance, that he is not abnormal at all, and that the main character might as well be himself.”
“Death's gruesome face taunts: soulless eyes, crimson grimace. I really hate clowns.”
“And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation.”
“I sublet place to place with my fiancé. We don't really have a home. I haven't had a proper home for years.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Chivalry is like a line of credit. You can get plenty of it when you do not need it.”
“When I turn around, he cups my face in his hands and he kisses me so deeply that I don't know who is breathing for who, but his mouth and tongue taste like warm honey. I don't know how long it lasts, but when I let go of him, I miss it already.”
“The jelly - the jam and the marmalade, And the cherry-and quince-'preserves' she made! And the sweet-sour pickles of peach and pear, With cinnamon in 'em, and all things rare! And the more we ate was the more to spare, Out to old Aunt Mary's! Ah!”

Source : James Whitcomb Riley (1993). “The Complete Poetical Works of James Whitcomb Riley”, p.315, Indiana University Press

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