#ow

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#now #poor #rich #satan #tempts

I was offered a choice of a flat salary up front or a percentage of the film's future earnings. I took the up front money. Nobody could have figured what Halloween would ultimately become. ↗

— Donald Pleasence

#choice #could #earnings #figured #film

I don't think there is anything owed to us. You've got to go out and work hard for every round win. ↗

— Larry Dixon

#every #go #got #hard #i

I've ceased making predictions on things because we'll see how they turn out. ↗

— David Plouffe

#ceased #how #i #making #out

I want to paint Montreal as a rather fantastic city, which it was, because nobody knows today what it was like. And I'm one of the last survivors, or rapidly becoming one. ↗

— Christopher Plummer

#becoming #city #fantastic #i #knows

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. ↗

— Plutarch

#better #change #changes #does #friend

When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

#began #children #found #i #influenced

Eating properly is great. I mean you cut the fat down, cut the cholesterol out, but still you got to get your rest and you got to have some form of exercise. ↗

— Mike Ditka

#cut #down #eating #exercise #fat

Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist. ↗

— Plutarch

#fate #follows #him #leads #resist

Hurtling the Pentagon into an unprecedented budgetary meltdown is horrifically irresponsible. Obama doesn't care. This is war - not against the Taliban, but war against the GOP. He has Republicans on the ropes, and that's a victory he savors and desires - unlike Afghanistan, where he seems only to want to turn tail. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#against #budgetary #care #desires #gop