• spyru (49)in #quoteoftheday • 7 years ago

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  “The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?” Percy Bysshe Shelley

  $0.77

  • Past Payouts $0.77
  • - Author $0.75
  • - Curators $0.02

   170 1
• spyru (49)in #quoteoftheday • 7 years ago

  Jean-Baptiste Colbert

  “The art of taxation consists of plucking the goose so as to obtain the most feathers with the least hissing.” Jean-Baptiste Colbert

  $0.78

  • Past Payouts $0.78
  • - Author $0.74
  • - Curators $0.04

   166 0
• spyru (49)in #quote • 7 years ago

  Terry Pratchett

  “There was this about vampires : they could never look scruffy. Instead, they were... what was the word... deshabille. It meant untidy, but with bags and bags of style.” Terry…

  $0.86

  • Past Payouts $0.86
  • - Author $0.81
  • - Curators $0.05

   168 0
• spyru (49)in #quote • 7 years ago

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  “I was quite depressed two weeks ago when I spent an afternoon at Brentano's Bookshop in New York and was looking at the kind of books most people read. Once you see that you…

  $1.00

  • Past Payouts $1.00
  • - Author $0.97
  • - Curators $0.02

   169 1
• spyru (49)in #quote • 7 years ago

  Rom 15:13

  May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. Rom 15:13

  $0.94

  • Past Payouts $0.94
  • - Author $0.88
  • - Curators $0.06

   170 0
• spyru (49)in #quote • 7 years ago

  Thiruvalluvar, Kural

  “Virtue alone is happiness; all else Is else, and without praise.” Thiruvalluvar, Kural

  $0.58

  • Past Payouts $0.58
  • - Author $0.58
  • - Curators $0.00

   167 0
• spyru (49)in #quote • 7 years ago

  Confucius

  “To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.” Confucius

  $0.43

  • Past Payouts $0.43
  • - Author $0.43
  • - Curators $0.00

   167 0
• spyru (49)in #quote • 7 years ago

  Jean-Baptiste Colbert

  “The art of taxation consists of plucking the goose so as to obtain the most feathers with the least hissing.” Jean-Baptiste Colbert

  $1.05

  • Past Payouts $1.05
  • - Author $1.03
  • - Curators $0.03

   169 0
• spyru (49)in #quote • 7 years ago

  Aristotle

  “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” Aristotle, Metaphysics

  $1.06

  • Past Payouts $1.06
  • - Author $1.04
  • - Curators $0.02

   170 0
• spyru (49)in #quote • 7 years ago

  Khaled Hosseini

  “Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam.” Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

  $0.94

  • Past Payouts $0.94
  • - Author $0.91
  • - Curators $0.03

   165 0
• spyru (49)in #quote • 7 years ago

  Zeena Schreck

  “After you've seen behind the facade of a stage set you can't take the play seriously any more. You can't go backwards and regain your ignorance; you have to move forward.” Zeena Schreck

  $1.03

  • Past Payouts $1.03
  • - Author $1.01
  • - Curators $0.03

   170 0
• spyru (49)in #quote • 7 years ago

  Taxpayer

  “Taxpayer is a person who pays for the maintenance of the state, so the phrase "obligations of a citizen to the state" is so false, how true the phrase "duty of the state to the taxpayer" is.”

  $1.02

  • Past Payouts $1.02
  • - Author $0.99
  • - Curators $0.03

   171 0
• spyru (49)in #quote • 7 years ago

  Toni Sorenson

  “I believe that we are all born for greatness yet most of us mire in the mediocrity of life. We become complacent or worse, discouraged and stagnate. We damn ourselves by not…

  $0.50

  • Past Payouts $0.50
  • - Author $0.50
  • - Curators $0.00

   167 0
• spyru (49)in #inspiration • 7 years ago

  Simone de Beauvoir

  “That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.” Simone de Beauvoir

  $0.90

  • Past Payouts $0.90
  • - Author $0.90
  • - Curators $0.00

   167 0
• spyru (49)in #quoteoftheday • 7 years ago

  Martin Luther King Jr.

  “Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for…

  $0.88

  • Past Payouts $0.88
  • - Author $0.88
  • - Curators $0.00

   167 0
• spyru (49)in #quote • 7 years ago

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  “If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

  $0.73

  • Past Payouts $0.73
  • - Author $0.73
  • - Curators $0.00

   170 0
• spyru (49)in #quote • 7 years ago

  Ally Condie

  “He's in pain. I am, too. It strikes me that perhaps this is part of what we are fighting to choose. Which pain we feel.” Ally Condie, Matched

  $0.65

  • Past Payouts $0.65
  • - Author $0.63
  • - Curators $0.03

   160 0
• spyru (49)in #quoteoftheday • 7 years ago

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  “Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.” Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

  $0.78

  • Past Payouts $0.78
  • - Author $0.73
  • - Curators $0.06

   170 0
• spyru (49)in #quote • 7 years ago

  Working class

  “The working class had imposed upon them a sterile and authoritarian educational system which mirrored the ethos of the corporate workplace.”

  $0.90

  • Past Payouts $0.90
  • - Author $0.88
  • - Curators $0.01

   167 0
• spyru (49)in #quote • 7 years ago

  George Alexiou

  “Success follows those who champion a cause greater than themselves.” George Alexiou

  $0.96

  • Past Payouts $0.96
  • - Author $0.89
  • - Curators $0.07

   169 0