#ow

You still owe me a million dollars." I'd presented him with a bill for proving his innocence and getting him freed from prison. He had yet to pay. Couldn't imagine why. "Yeah, I was hoping we could work that out." "The interest alone is going to kill you." "What do you charge?" "Three hundred eighty-seven percent." "Is that ethical?" "It's as ethical as my dating the son of Satan. ↗

— Darynda Jones

#ethics #reyes-farrow #dating

When someone cannot do without you, don't think he/she is weak. When he/she loves you, don't take that for granted. Experience has thought me that we all have the power to fall out of love at the same pace we fall in it. ↗

— Olaotan Fawehinmi

#love #marriage #olaotan-fawehinmi #pace #power

Sit your affections, your heart and your precious time out on the doorstep without so much as making him ring the doorbell first, and he’ll treat you like a doormat. Make him work a little to get next to you, and he won’t stop til you’re his. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#hard-to-get #knowing-your-worth #love #playing-hard-to-get #positive-thinking

But I just know from experience that accent wise, even if you're an accent genius, crossing the Atlantic is the hardest thing in the world either way. ↗

— Hugh Grant

#atlantic #crossing #either #even #experience

The entire deaths of Vietnam died in vain. And they're dying in vain right this very second. And you know what's worse than a soldier dying in vain? It's more soldiers dying in vain. That's what's worse. ↗

— Mike Gravel

#died #dying #entire #know #more

We have spoken of beings so low in the scale that the individuals throughout their whole existence are not sufficiently specialized to be distinctively plant or animal: yet these are definite life in simpler shape. ↗

— Asa Gray

#beings #definite #distinctively #existence #individuals

That person who's going to a concert for a nostalgic reason, we're not really going to placate. We still play three or four hits every night. Now, we don't play them like the record. We try to find new ways to do it. ↗

— Bruce Hornsby

#every #every night #find #four #going

Yes. I was the first female colonel. I enjoyed being that kind of role model for young women watching the show. A woman can be a colonel! A woman can be in charge! Those were new ideas then. ↗

— Erin Gray

#charge #colonel #enjoyed #female #first

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion. ↗

— Alexander the Great

#excel #excellent #extent #had #i

But if we get to the point where more people do not believe in a God than who do believe in God, we will have a hollow legal system - we will have something without heart. ↗

— Lee Greenwood

#get #god #heart #hollow #legal