Charles Ponzi Quotes

I landed in this country with $2.50 in cash and $1 million in hopes, and those hopes never left me.

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• My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Music
  • Love
  • Beatles

• I've just finished reading 'The Second Plane,' and I think it's some of the best non-fiction I've ever read.

  

  M. J. Hyland
  • Think
  • Reading
  • Best

• I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • American
  • Violence
  • Pie

• Whoever comes to me finds me a mirror to whatever is in his heart. Thus, I try to help him to see qualities in himself that he needs to overcome.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Heart
  • Help
  • Mirror

• I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.

  

  Abba Eban
  • War
  • History
  • Peace

• The more you work with anyone, the more comfortable and safe you feel. The more you have an understanding.

  

  Nancy Allen
  • Work
  • Understanding
  • Safe

• That's what I loved about show business, no two days were alike. It's an exciting life.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • Life
  • Business
  • Loved

• People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be - whether they will admit that or not.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • People
  • Want
  • Admit

• I don't care if you're Muslim or Christian or Buddhist or whatever your religion is, when you listen to a spiritual song and you really open your heart, you can feel it. You can feel the message of it. Just a simple story.

  

  Valerie June
  • Heart
  • Song
  • Simple

• At the end of the 1970s, I was a young researcher at the Weizmann Institute with an ambitious plan to shed light on one of the major outstanding questions concerning living cells: the process of protein biosynthesis.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Light
  • End
  • Questions

• At a certain moment, I decided to write a story. I had no more small children to tell them stories.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Children
  • Small
  • Moment

• I lost my faith in God when I lost my daughter to Cancer, the beast. I begged, I cried, I offered my life for hers, and day by day, I watched that beautiful little Angel slip off. So, excuse me for not taking my seat next to you on Sunday in Church, I feel too cheated to worship.

  

  Vince Neil Mötley Crüe
  • Life
  • God
  • Beautiful

• The plane took off at 8:10 in the morning - or that's when it was scheduled to take off. And that's when I believe it took off. I had been in my office at the Department of Justice. Someone told me that there had been the two strikes that occurred at the World Trade Center.

  

  Ted Olson
  • World
  • Believe
  • Morning

• We're not curing cancer, people. I wish we were, but we're not. It's entertainment.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Wish
  • Cancer

• We forget that this music, music made by my brothers and sisters, is still a baby. It's just beginning. When I think of the possibilities, it makes me smile.

  

  Barry White
  • Music
  • Beginning
  • Baby

• We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Knowledge
  • Human
  • Now

• I aint got all that many regrets. I could imagine lots of things that you might think would make a man happier. I think by the time you're grown you're as happy as you're goin to be. You'll have good times and bad times, but in the end you'll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I've knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• You know, 1% of us is in the armed forces, protecting the other 99, and they're all volunteers.

  

  Benjamin Walker

• Of course the EU and member states must work to ensure that people moving from one country to another understand their obligations and their rights in areas like health, road safety and further education.

  

  John Bruton
  • People
  • Work
  • Country

• Any country where I am not bored is a country that teaches me nothing.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Country
  • Bored
  • Teaches

• If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do?

  

  Christiane Amanpour
  • Respect

• You don't fall in love because you fall in love; you fall in love because of the need, desperate, to fall in love. when you feel that need, you have to watch your step: like having drunk a philter, the kind that makes you fall in love with the first thing you meet. It could be a duck-billed platypus.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Fall
  • Love Is
  • Drunk

• I landed in this country with $2.50 in cash and $1 million in hopes, and those hopes never left me.

  

  Charles Ponzi
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