Finley Peter Dunne Quotes
High finance isn't burglary or obtaining money by false pretenses, but rather a judicious selection from the best features of those fine arts.
Quotes to Explore
-
To me, it's impolite to go out shopping with no money.
-
Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
-
Students graduating with high debt encounter difficulties in qualifying for home and automobile loans.
-
I've always cared about fashion and what I look like. I don't like to spend a lot of money on designer clothes, but I do like to look good.
-
When I was young I didn't care about education, just money and box office.
-
I'm potentially worth a lot of money, but I've got to go and make something that's worth a lot of money.
-
One of the reasons we all still read Jane Austen is because her books are about universal things which still matter today - love, money, family. They haven't gone out of fashion, so it's not throwing the baby out with the bathwater to rework her in a contemporary style.
-
You don't need money to be free. You can just say if you don't need stuff, you're always free.
-
The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.
-
There are something like 300 anti-genocide chapters on college campuses around the country. It's bigger than the anti-apartheid movement. There are something like 500 high school chapters devoted to stopping the genocide in Darfur. Evangelicals have joined it. Jewish groups have joined it.
-
I'm kind of obsessed with wedges, but I go to a regular high school, so I'm not going to be wearing Vera Wang there.
-
Although China is not so wealthy and powerful as the West, her people of whatever condition - rich or poor, high or low - all enjoy a perfect freedom and a happy life. Not so all the inhabitants of Western lands.
-
I'm still the fat kid from high school who never had a date.
-
I was very energetic and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
-
No matter what's happening in the Middle East - the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment - the emotional, critical issue is always the Israeli-Palestinian one.
-
All the money I have, I got it legally.
-
When you have a country that can boast that more than 95 percent of its eligible workforce is employed and pumping money back into economy, that's exceptionally good news, especially as we prepare to observe Labor Day.
-
For artists, the majority of the money we make comes from us being on the road and touring.
-
I think if I wasn't in very high level, I never will be in the team. Cause I was high, in very high level.
-
When I've seen my operas in Europe, they have always struck me as more American than when I hear them here. I can't tell you what that phenomenon is.
-
New York has been the subject of thousands of books. Every immigrant group has had its saga as has every epoch and social class.
-
It's good to establish moves that fans are always going to recognize and scream for.
-
The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do not respect them, because they will not run - will not try to escape.
-
High finance isn't burglary or obtaining money by false pretenses, but rather a judicious selection from the best features of those fine arts.
