"Damned money! Alas! How many religious did it blind! How many cloistered religious did it deceive! Money is the 'droppings of birds' that blinded the eyes of Tobit."

-- Anthony of Padua

#Religious Quotes #Eye Quotes #Bird Quotes

“Choose old people for enemies. They die. You win.”
“The noblest contribution which any man can make for the benefit of posterity, is that of character. The richest bequest which any man can leave to the youth of his native land, is that of a shining, spotless example.”

Source : Robert Charles Winthrop (1852). “Addresses and Speeches on Various Occasions: 1835-1851”, p.132
“I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it wore me down. By the time I was 18, I was done. I didn't want to live the life any more. I needed to develop past the point that busking takes you to.”
“Looking backward always presents an overdetermined depiction of fate; by this perspective we leave out of focus the possibilities of action which existed at the time.”

Source : Reinhard Bendix (1990). “Force, Fate, and Freedom: On Historical Sociology”, p.56, Univ of California Press
“I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.”
“You must have respect for those who tell you the truth about you, no matter how hard it is”
“People are not like a business. You canâ€™t buy and sell them like so much property. You canâ€™t lock them up in a vault and expect them to appreciate it.”
“I like to reserve the right to write about whatever I like.”

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