In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.

An act of God was defined as something which no reasonable man could have expected.

Auberon Herbert

I like to put on hardcore when I have to clean my apartment, which I hate to do, but it's motivational. I like old heavy metal when I'm outside working on my car. Music has definite functions for me.

Peter Steele

I guessed life was like that. You gained and you lost, and if you saved anything from the ruins, even if only a shred of self-respect, it was enough to take you through the next bit.

Dick Francis

Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.

Yiannis Stournaras

Coffee in England is just toasted milk.

Christopher Fry, "New York Post"

Hang ideas! They are tramps, vagabonds, knocking at the back-door of your mind, each taking a little of your substance, each carrying away some crumb of that belief in a few simple notions you must cling to if you want to live decently and would like to die easy!

Joseph Conrad, Marlow, in Lord J

Through an arrow loop in the wall she saw a familiar horse and rider tearing across the camp toward the healing rooms. Brigan pulled up at Nash's feet and dropped from the saddle. The two brothers threw their arms around each other and embraced hard.Shortly thereafter he stepped into the healing rooms and leaned in the doorway, looking across at her quietly. Brocker's son with the gentle gray eyes.She abandoned all pretense of decorum and ran at him.

Kristin Cashore

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not anymore what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.

John Fowles

But when all was said the important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg.

Oscar Wilde

The only thing that could spoil a day was people.... People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

Ernest Hemingway

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

Denzel Washington