Globe And Mail Business Stock Quotes & Sayings

It is unpleasing to represent our affairs to our own disadvantage; yet it is necessary to shew the evils which we desire to be removed. — Samuel Johnson

miserable of all conditions in this world: that we may always find in it something to comfort ourselves from, and — Daniel Defoe

Is there anything more dangerous to the cause of liberty than a politician fixated on re-election? — Neal Boortz

So you didn't have any reason to be so mad I wrecked the car," I said, triumphantly.
Samuel laughed out loud. "You still haven't figured it out, have you, Mercy? He never was mad about the car. He was the first one at the scene of the accident. He thought you'd killed yourself. We all did. That was a pretty spectacular wreck."
I started to say something and found I couldn't. The first thing I'd seen after hitting the tree was the Marrok's snarling face. I'd never seen him that angry - and I'd done a lot, from time to time, to inspire his rage. — Patricia Briggs

The organic produce guy, a young man who'd left Brooklyn in order to minimize his carbon footprint and consume only things he could make or grow himself. This had come to involve ... going toilet-paper free the year before, and making his wife use discarded athletic socks for her monthly cycle.'That poor girl!' said Sylvie, privately resolving to figure out where the young woman was living and anonymously deliver some tampons, the really bad kind, with non biodegradable plastic applicators. — Jennifer Weiner

Maybe everything really does just have an expiration date - one that you can't see until she tells you she's leaving, and then she's gone. — Laura Miller

Sicarius wore his usual guess-my-thoughts-if-you-can-mask, though she sensed he did not approve. — Lindsay Buroker

My mother, as a girl, had remembered this woman from Maine, someone who was part of the extended family somehow, and I recall her talking about this great, risk-taking woman. There are the most amazing, heroic stories in everybody's lives. — Patricia MacLachlan