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In ten seconds he had completely lost his appetite and gained on hundred thousand dollars.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Actors generally get to do things you probably shouldn't do in real life - well, at least as much as one might like to or be tempted to. Though I suppose a lot of actors just go ahead and do it, don't they?
- John Malkovich
The institutionalizing of the church is essentially its immunization to an evangelistic impulse.
- Ed Stetzer
Shopping: The fine art of acquiring things you don't need with money you don't have.
- Anonymous
Think before you ink!
- Anonymous
I shop like a bull - I charge everything!
- Anonymous
The young generally are incapable of making hard decisions unless those decisions are associated with immediate violence and the consequent sharp flow of adrenalin
- Frank Herbert
All real art is, in its true sense, is a religious impulse; there is no such thing as a non-religious subject. But much bad or downright sacrilegious art depicts so-called religious subjects…Conversely, much great religious art has been written or painted or composed by people who thought they were atheists.
- Madeleine L'Engle
It was an observation they had made in her earliest youth—Undine never wanted anything long, but she wanted it "right off." And until she got it the house was uninhabitable.
- Edith Wharton
Rage and phrenzy will pull down more in half an hour, than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in an hundred years.
- Edmund Burke
The desire is overwhelming. Why? Because there is availability without accountability.
- Edward Welch
Sin is not rational. It doesn't make sense. It doesn't look into the future. It doesn't consider consequences, especially if they are not immediate. All it knows is "I WANT—I WANT MORE.
- Edward Welch