#mon

Money is a powerful force. don't use it against you. If your self-discipline and financial intelligence are low, money will run over you. It will be smarter than you to take over your life. ↗

— Robert Kiyosaki

#intelligence

If you were smart," Genghis said, "you would have borrowed the silverware of one of your friends." "We never thought of that," Klaus said. When one is forced to tell atrocious lies, one often feels a guilty flutter in one's stomach, and Klaus felt such a flutter now. "You certainly are an intelligent man." "Not only am I intelligent," Genghis agreed, "but I'm also very smart. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#clever #count-olaf #funny-humor #intelligent #lemony-snicket

O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#jealousy #mockery #monsters #vices #jealousy

My eyes are green, Cause I eat a lot of vegetables, It don't have nothing to do with your new friend ↗

— Erykah Badu

#jealousy #jealousy

Finally, Dageus finished, and she heard Gwen and Chloe say simultaneously, breathlessly, "Oh, my God." Gabby opened her eyes. Drustan had risen to his feet and was scowling, an expression mirrored by his twin. Both were glaring at Adam--whom they obviously could now see. Then at their wives, then back at Adam. ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#chloe #dageus #drustan #gabby #gwen

Teamwork is the secret that make common people achieve uncommon result. ↗

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#advice #community #ifeanyi-enoch-onuoha #inspirational #law

They stood there, King of the Hill, Top of the Heap, Ruler of All They Surveyed, Unimpeachable Monarchs and Presidents, trying to understand what it meant to own a world and how big a world really was. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#monarchy #unlimited-power #leadership

Patience, grasshopper," said Maia. "Good things come to those who wait." "I always thought that was 'Good things come to those who do the wave,'" said Simon. "No wonder I've been so confused all my life. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#patience #simon #wit #life

In this life you've got to hope for the best, prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#life

To own the dominant, or only, newspaper in a mid-sized American city was, for many decades, a kind of license to print money. In the Internet age, however, no one has figured out how to rescue the newspaper in the United States or abroad. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#age #american #city #decades #dominant