"Fortune makes many loans, but gives no presents."

--

Publilius Syrus

#Giving Quotes #Loan Quotes #Fortune Quotes

“The most humble research scientist in the Department of Agriculture is at this time contributing more to this country than the most useful member of Congress.”
“Our saving grace! Um, as a species [humans] we can be pretty warm and fuzzy. But maybe for this, it's the adaptability, or the heart and soul. We're not all that bad. I don't really know!”
“Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.”
“Love doesn't hurt you. A person that doesn't know how to love hurts you. Don't get it twisted.”

Source : FaceBook post by Tony A. Gaskins Jr from Jan 28, 2013
“I drink much less than most people think, and I think much more than most people would believe.Â I am quite sincere about some of the things that people take very lightly, and almost insultingly unconcerned about some of the things which most people take seriously.Â In short, I am basically antisocial: certainly not to an alarming degree, but just more so than I appear to be.”
“The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.”
“I basically modeled my way through college, doing local runway shows in L.A. that don't pay a lot and a couple of shows in N.Y. and S.F., and I probably made the same as the average 19-year-old waiter; I just worked less and was around beautiful girls, so it was nice.”
“So much American science fiction is parochial -- not as true now as it was years ago, but the assumption is one culture in the future, more or less like ours, and with the same ideals, the same notions of how to do things, just bigger and flashier technology. Well, you know darn well it doesn't work that way...”

You may also like:

Apuleius
Prose writer
Baltasar Gracian
Writer
Epictetus
Philosopher
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Author
Horace
Poet
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Philosopher
Plutarch
Biographer
Seneca the Younger
Philosopher
Terence
Playwright