#he

And as I surveyed the clutter of his study I was pleased to see that he was a man after my own heart. All of his money appeared to have been spent on either books or shelves to hold them. ↗

— Ross King

#bookshelf #reading #money

This is what love does, he realized, and in that moment he understood why Artemis had kidnapped a fairy to get the money to find his father. Love makes everything else seem inconsequential ↗

— Eoin Colfer

#love #the-last-guardian #love

The more cashless our society becomes, the more our moral compass slips. ↗

— Dan Ariely

#honesty #money #morality #money

When I propose a candidate for a job I don't do it because the person in question is the best but because he is the one the client will employ. I provide them with a head that is good enough, placed on a body they want. [...] The world is full of people who pay serious money for bad pictures by good artists. And mediocre heads on tall bodies. ↗

— Jo Nesbø

#brains #headhunting #money

А тъкмо заради богатството си я напуснах: нямаше как да се прибирам вкъщи , след като имах толкова пари за харчене. За какво ми бяха всичките тези пари , ако всяка вечер трябваше да спя с една и съща жена? ↗

— Frédéric Beigbeder

#money #sex #windows-on-the-world #жена #пари

Fascism is fundamentally and at bottom an aesthetic conception, and . . . it is your function as creators of beautiful things to portray with the greatest efficacy the sublime beauty and inevitable reality of the Fascist ideal. ↗

— Louis de Bernières

#art #beauty #fascism #art

The decor was attractive and strong, but blander than she would have thought his wealth and position afforded him. Caren couldn't see the point of having that much money if all of it led to beige. ↗

— Attica Locke

#humor #southern #style #wealth #money

(Why do you rob banks, Willie?) Because that's where the money is. ↗

— Willie Sutton

#money

The educator has the duty of not being neutral. ↗

— Paulo Freire

#neutrality #students #teachers #change

Caramba, bendito seja o dinheiro! ↗

— Eça de Queirós

#money #money