“Hurray. That almost evened the score in his favor.Fiona = 3,467,009Riley = 1”
―
Kelly Moran,
Charmed
“We had been given a great and terrible power. For a moment we contemplated responsibility, then gleefully tossed it aside in favor of posting pictures of cats.” ― Kelly Weill
“Aden St. George managed to avoid having to kill the guard stationed outside his quarry’s crypt-like cell, although the thug outside the caves hadn’t been so lucky. Still, that bastard had tried to knife him in the gut so Aden could hardly be faulted for returning the favor. And knowing what he did about the men who’d kidnapped Lady Vivien Shaw, he wouldn’t waste his fitful conscience on that brutal but necessary act. Killing was not a favorite pastime, but only rarely did it disturb his sleep.Tonight’s rescue mission carried no inconvenient opportunities for remorse since a woman’s life and innocence hung in the balance. True, the gossips whispered that Lady Vivien’s innocence was an open question, but what would happen to her if Aden failed wasn’t. Without his intervention she would disappear into a nightmarish life, forever beyond the protection of her family and friends.” ― Vanessa Kelly, Secrets for Seducing a Royal Bodyguard
“the laws of nature are rigged in favor of life.” In this view, “life emerges from a soup in the same dependable way that a crystal emerges from a saturated solution,” ― Kevin Kelly, What Technology Wants
“a glass table nearby, with magazines carefully fanned out across it.” ― Kelly Favor, Big Box Of Romance
“Platforms are factories for services; services favor access over ownership. Clouds” ― Kevin Kelly, The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
“I walked home with a lighter step, for that night had knocked something loose in me, something long overdue to be knocked. At long last, I saw that group for what they were, with a few exceptions - a queer assortment of layabouts and late risers, most overdrawn at the bank or at least cutting into principal, only interested in who's going in the drawer at the Maidstone Club or their wedge on the fifteenth hole at Pebble Beach or dressing down the staff about a bit of shell in the lobster while shoveling canapés in. Jinx had done me a favor, freed me of any lingering allegiances to New York Society, snipped my fear of being on their bad side.” ― Martha Hall Kelly, Lilac Girls
“In our personal spaces, where there are no eyes to guide our better nature caressing our intentions, we sometimes gnaw in the agonizing realization that, although we charitably took on the rough task with smiling faces, our condescension has produced our worst nightmare. For a new work has triggered our insecure buttons, birthing the fear that the author may flow past our selfish desires, and find their way into the ocean of our faith, leaving us alone and desperate. And so we must, with the extremest prejudice, bomb their potential future by damming all of our congratulations. Rendering Goodreads a stale pond of green algae and used condoms. But do we not know that this same pond we all must drink from? Instead of filing another dead weight upon our self-deprecation, we should condescend to our own little devils, transforming them into loving companions with our guidance, so they may sprout wings in our charity, by praising this new work loudly to all of our friends and acquaintances. Instead of a dam, we can fashion a fountain of ascension, whose poetic mead, we may all get drunk on. Then, one day, those that we have assisted, we may one day find them returning us the favor by building us a fountain. That's my opinion on the subject anyway. This has been an exercise in poetic articulation. Signing off.” ― Justin Kelly
“she” ― Kelly Favor, Naked
“Okay,” she said, finally. “Tell me where” ― Kelly Favor, The Debt: The Complete Series Box Set
“As I pointed out in Wilmott magazine, Warren Buffett’s thinking is consistent with the Kelly Criterion. In a question and answer session with business students at Emory University, he was asked, in view of the popularity of Fortune’s Formula and the Kelly Criterion, to describe his process for choosing how much to invest in a situation. He and his associate Charlie Munger, when managing $200 million, put most of it into just five or so positions. Sometimes he was willing to bet 75 percent of his fortune on a single investment. Investing heavily in extremely favorable situations is characteristic of a Kelly bettor.” ― Edward O. Thorp, A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market
“Juan Esteban removed his gloves and raised the lid of the exquisite case to reveal a solid gold apple adorned with a reliquary silver crucifix embedded in the face. Juan Esteban held the heavy lemon sized orb in his bare hand and slowly wiped his thumb back and forth across the crucifix and asked, “How did you get it to be so flawless?”“It takes time. This was the fourth casting. The first three were good, but not good enough for a king,” Mateo replied. “This one is perfect.”The general had acquired a portion of a gold and silver shipment from the Santa Fe mint atBogota to fulfill his personal mission to exalt favor with King Philip V of Spain. It was thisruler who had entrusted the general with command of the armada. As a devout catholic, Juan Esteban envisioned a holy gift to honor his king. With the expertise of this goldsmith, the golden orb was created in secrecy. An applerepresented Adam and Eve’s ‘original sin’ and the crucifix symbolized Christ Jesus’ redemption of mankind. GeneralJuan Esteban de Ubilla christened the casting as the Temptation of Paradise.“Yes, this one is perfect,” General de Ubilla replied.“You are a fine artisan. Now, before I leave, you must break the molds. There will never be another casting.”“But Your Excellency, I should retain the mold as you may one day require another,” Mateo pleaded.“There will be no others. This is the one. This is the only one,” he emphasized.“Yes, Your Excellency.” “And Mateo, if word reaches me that another orb exists?”“Yes, master?”“I will have your hands removed.” ― Jim Kelly, The Temptation of Paradise
“You need to have a system that makes the best possible decisions with the best possible odds in your favor.” ― Eliot Kelly, Creating A Platinum Lifestyle: Set Your Mind On Fire
“interactions they’d had, to try and” ― Kelly Favor, For His Pleasure, Ten Book Boxed Set
“Frankly, I don’t see the advantage being gargantuan will get me, not when I have to run errands around people I know.” “Yeah, that might be a problem. Scaring the mailman won’t win you any favors around town.” Caitlyn grinned.-Kelly & Caitlyn” ― Marie Harte, Zack & Ace
“Thrive supports a radical transformation that would bring about a world in which public schools, universities, the social safety net, and even basic public infrastructures like roads and utilities have all been privatized. Instead of police, we would have private security forces. As Foster Gamble, creator of Thrive, states, “Private security works way better than the state” (especially if they are hired to specifically protect just you and your entourage). The civil court systems, which have provided the foundation for justice for the Anglo-American civilization since the Magna Carta, would be abolished in favor of private courts, in which competing legal claims would be adjusted against our personal legal insurance. The outcomes might be less desirable if you can’t afford your private legal insurance bill.” ― Georgia Kelly, Uncivil Liberties: Deconstructing Libertarianism
“Napoleon was convinced his system of sound money could defeat the vaporous credit creation of the British. He felt that people would reject a paper currency in favor of gold backing. His defeat made clear the awesome power of fractional reserve banking, a point not lost on bankers.” ― Kelly Mitchell, Gold Wars: The Battle for the Global Economy
“Most people tend to think of themselves as fiercely independent, as if to be dependent were some great weakness and reason for shame. The reality is that we are interdependent and much more connected than most of us realize. (…)It is too easy to convince ourselves that we can live our lives and fulfill our destinies without the cooperation of others. In many ways, our destinies are not in our own hands—at least, not entirely. In many ways, we are not independent; we are interdependent. Independence is just one example of the illusions that prevent us from entering deeply into relationships. Dynamic and vibrant relationships help us to surrender our illusions in favor of the often less perfect but always more fulfilling reality.” ― Matthew Kelly, The Seven Levels of Intimacy: The Art of Loving and the Joy of Being Loved
“It was the best release ever, and my entire body turned to steel, and I was simultaneously melting into her, giving way, and we came together.” ― Kelly Favor, Obscene
“We had been given a great and terrible power. For a moment we contemplated responsibility, then gleefully tossed it aside in favor of posting pictures of cats.” ― Kelly Weill
“Aden St. George managed to avoid having to kill the guard stationed outside his quarry’s crypt-like cell, although the thug outside the caves hadn’t been so lucky. Still, that bastard had tried to knife him in the gut so Aden could hardly be faulted for returning the favor. And knowing what he did about the men who’d kidnapped Lady Vivien Shaw, he wouldn’t waste his fitful conscience on that brutal but necessary act. Killing was not a favorite pastime, but only rarely did it disturb his sleep.Tonight’s rescue mission carried no inconvenient opportunities for remorse since a woman’s life and innocence hung in the balance. True, the gossips whispered that Lady Vivien’s innocence was an open question, but what would happen to her if Aden failed wasn’t. Without his intervention she would disappear into a nightmarish life, forever beyond the protection of her family and friends.” ― Vanessa Kelly, Secrets for Seducing a Royal Bodyguard
“the laws of nature are rigged in favor of life.” In this view, “life emerges from a soup in the same dependable way that a crystal emerges from a saturated solution,” ― Kevin Kelly, What Technology Wants
“a glass table nearby, with magazines carefully fanned out across it.” ― Kelly Favor, Big Box Of Romance
“Platforms are factories for services; services favor access over ownership. Clouds” ― Kevin Kelly, The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
“I walked home with a lighter step, for that night had knocked something loose in me, something long overdue to be knocked. At long last, I saw that group for what they were, with a few exceptions - a queer assortment of layabouts and late risers, most overdrawn at the bank or at least cutting into principal, only interested in who's going in the drawer at the Maidstone Club or their wedge on the fifteenth hole at Pebble Beach or dressing down the staff about a bit of shell in the lobster while shoveling canapés in. Jinx had done me a favor, freed me of any lingering allegiances to New York Society, snipped my fear of being on their bad side.” ― Martha Hall Kelly, Lilac Girls
“In our personal spaces, where there are no eyes to guide our better nature caressing our intentions, we sometimes gnaw in the agonizing realization that, although we charitably took on the rough task with smiling faces, our condescension has produced our worst nightmare. For a new work has triggered our insecure buttons, birthing the fear that the author may flow past our selfish desires, and find their way into the ocean of our faith, leaving us alone and desperate. And so we must, with the extremest prejudice, bomb their potential future by damming all of our congratulations. Rendering Goodreads a stale pond of green algae and used condoms. But do we not know that this same pond we all must drink from? Instead of filing another dead weight upon our self-deprecation, we should condescend to our own little devils, transforming them into loving companions with our guidance, so they may sprout wings in our charity, by praising this new work loudly to all of our friends and acquaintances. Instead of a dam, we can fashion a fountain of ascension, whose poetic mead, we may all get drunk on. Then, one day, those that we have assisted, we may one day find them returning us the favor by building us a fountain. That's my opinion on the subject anyway. This has been an exercise in poetic articulation. Signing off.” ― Justin Kelly
“she” ― Kelly Favor, Naked
“Okay,” she said, finally. “Tell me where” ― Kelly Favor, The Debt: The Complete Series Box Set
“As I pointed out in Wilmott magazine, Warren Buffett’s thinking is consistent with the Kelly Criterion. In a question and answer session with business students at Emory University, he was asked, in view of the popularity of Fortune’s Formula and the Kelly Criterion, to describe his process for choosing how much to invest in a situation. He and his associate Charlie Munger, when managing $200 million, put most of it into just five or so positions. Sometimes he was willing to bet 75 percent of his fortune on a single investment. Investing heavily in extremely favorable situations is characteristic of a Kelly bettor.” ― Edward O. Thorp, A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market
“Juan Esteban removed his gloves and raised the lid of the exquisite case to reveal a solid gold apple adorned with a reliquary silver crucifix embedded in the face. Juan Esteban held the heavy lemon sized orb in his bare hand and slowly wiped his thumb back and forth across the crucifix and asked, “How did you get it to be so flawless?”“It takes time. This was the fourth casting. The first three were good, but not good enough for a king,” Mateo replied. “This one is perfect.”The general had acquired a portion of a gold and silver shipment from the Santa Fe mint atBogota to fulfill his personal mission to exalt favor with King Philip V of Spain. It was thisruler who had entrusted the general with command of the armada. As a devout catholic, Juan Esteban envisioned a holy gift to honor his king. With the expertise of this goldsmith, the golden orb was created in secrecy. An applerepresented Adam and Eve’s ‘original sin’ and the crucifix symbolized Christ Jesus’ redemption of mankind. GeneralJuan Esteban de Ubilla christened the casting as the Temptation of Paradise.“Yes, this one is perfect,” General de Ubilla replied.“You are a fine artisan. Now, before I leave, you must break the molds. There will never be another casting.”“But Your Excellency, I should retain the mold as you may one day require another,” Mateo pleaded.“There will be no others. This is the one. This is the only one,” he emphasized.“Yes, Your Excellency.” “And Mateo, if word reaches me that another orb exists?”“Yes, master?”“I will have your hands removed.” ― Jim Kelly, The Temptation of Paradise
“You need to have a system that makes the best possible decisions with the best possible odds in your favor.” ― Eliot Kelly, Creating A Platinum Lifestyle: Set Your Mind On Fire
“interactions they’d had, to try and” ― Kelly Favor, For His Pleasure, Ten Book Boxed Set
“Frankly, I don’t see the advantage being gargantuan will get me, not when I have to run errands around people I know.” “Yeah, that might be a problem. Scaring the mailman won’t win you any favors around town.” Caitlyn grinned.-Kelly & Caitlyn” ― Marie Harte, Zack & Ace
“Thrive supports a radical transformation that would bring about a world in which public schools, universities, the social safety net, and even basic public infrastructures like roads and utilities have all been privatized. Instead of police, we would have private security forces. As Foster Gamble, creator of Thrive, states, “Private security works way better than the state” (especially if they are hired to specifically protect just you and your entourage). The civil court systems, which have provided the foundation for justice for the Anglo-American civilization since the Magna Carta, would be abolished in favor of private courts, in which competing legal claims would be adjusted against our personal legal insurance. The outcomes might be less desirable if you can’t afford your private legal insurance bill.” ― Georgia Kelly, Uncivil Liberties: Deconstructing Libertarianism
“Napoleon was convinced his system of sound money could defeat the vaporous credit creation of the British. He felt that people would reject a paper currency in favor of gold backing. His defeat made clear the awesome power of fractional reserve banking, a point not lost on bankers.” ― Kelly Mitchell, Gold Wars: The Battle for the Global Economy
“Most people tend to think of themselves as fiercely independent, as if to be dependent were some great weakness and reason for shame. The reality is that we are interdependent and much more connected than most of us realize. (…)It is too easy to convince ourselves that we can live our lives and fulfill our destinies without the cooperation of others. In many ways, our destinies are not in our own hands—at least, not entirely. In many ways, we are not independent; we are interdependent. Independence is just one example of the illusions that prevent us from entering deeply into relationships. Dynamic and vibrant relationships help us to surrender our illusions in favor of the often less perfect but always more fulfilling reality.” ― Matthew Kelly, The Seven Levels of Intimacy: The Art of Loving and the Joy of Being Loved
“It was the best release ever, and my entire body turned to steel, and I was simultaneously melting into her, giving way, and we came together.” ― Kelly Favor, Obscene
