J.P. Morgan Quotes

Then again, that's how the most successful predators work, she thinks ruefully. We stumble into their traps and do their work for them while we're busy getting on with the business of living.

I believe we make our own destinies, every last one of us.

Race and class were a kind of destiny

Insanity is coasting through life in a miserable existence when you have a caged lion locked inside and the key to release it.

You must continue to believe with all your heart. Sometimes belief is all if takes to make something real.

Words are only words

Work, he tells them one night, is a kind of prayer.

Really, I protest--what is left for the satirical mind to invent when reality so surpasses it?

It was like a bomb had just gone off in the kitchen, and instead of cleaning up the rubble, people were stepping around it and eating mini-quiche.

So this, Harriet thought, gazing at her black-clad reflection, was what bearing up looked like. The eyes in the mirror stared at her, somehow, while fixing themselves far

My grief has burrowed into me like a dark thing that eats away at my life.

A drunk man's words are a sober man's thoughts.

A balance, I think, is needed, " Dr. Templeton said judiciously, "between the head and the heart: nothing easier to say: nothing harder to achieve.

And she kept following the truck, like we were a very small parade, waving and waving, until Frank took the curve in the road and then she was gone.

Do you truly feel that she is worth your wings?”He smiled. “What good are my wings, friend, when I can hold theworld in my arms?

I cannot ever imagine a time or place in which I will not love you. I am willing to do whatever it takes.

He moved closer to her. “You did not have to get me anything. The fact that you did means I have been in your thoughts. I am thankful for that.

I make a rule never to remember anything before last week. It makes life more interesting

Memories of one's past are tainted. There are no truths to be found in them.

The fountain of youth resides in our memory. You will never outlive your shadow.

Potential, and the will to deploy it. That's all magic is in the end, you know.

I believe in magic. In evil sorceresses who deep down are really beautiful princesses. I believe in immortals who live in a different world than this one, accessible by magical stone wheels.

All magic comes with a price. A price that is never revealed until after the damage has been done.

Aren’t faeries supposed to be, like, really tiny? With wings and a wand and faerie dust?”“I’m not Tinker Bell!

Magic will find those with pure heats, even when all seems lost. And love is the greatest magic of all. I know this to be true.

I haven't believed in magic because I don't believe in anything that I haven't seen with my own eyes. Therefore, I must go to Paelsia as soon as I can and learn the truth for myself

Magic will find those with pure hearts, even when all seems lost.

Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.

Accept me for who iam or leave me the the way iam, for a true image of God needs no Photoshop and the core of who i real am has no settings

Accept me for who iam or leave me the way iam, for a true image of God needs no Photoshop and the core of who i really am has no settings

Look deep into my soul than what stretches the fabric of my clohes

It’s not about the destination. It’s getting there that’s the good part.- Leonard

Darkness became her world...

Make everything an adventure. Otherwise, it will suck.

One wouldn't wish to tempt fate

....I should have wanted you. I wanted so much to want you.

You have always been home for me, and nothing has been the same without you...

At the beginning of our relationship, my heart pounded so loudly whenever Istood near him. He had an effect on me that no aspiring vicar should have on a young woman.

This had to be Hell.Well, myHell, and funnily enough, my Hell was in a church, surrounded by people I—either door did—love.

Richard felt about as conspicuous as a foreskin at a Jewish nudist camp.

Everyone's afraid of what they don't understand, " Ringil said quietly.

Bellamy had come down from scanning the heavens only to find himself in the depths of hell.

The reality of life does not change who you are, it only changes your perspective.

Doing something nice for myself is not selfish.

It is so important to think for yourself.

I was speaking without thinking about it first, not hesitating, just saying what I felt first.

Hate is a strong emotion. Much more stronger than indifference. But those who burn with hate can also love just as intensely.

Hatred is like fire. It burns the one who harnesses it. It's also extremely hard to see more helpful truths through its flames.

Hating is easy. It's loving that's hard

Probably no purer incitement to hatred existed, Lydia had found, than being told of anyone or anything: you will love him, her or it. The spirit immediately rose up like a fanged cobra.