Miesacka Quotes & Sayings

Excuse me, Ben," Bowen said. "Am I wrong, or aren't you the corporate treasurer?"
Glisan bristled. "Yes."
"What do you mean, you think you can get one?" Bowen shot back. "This is the current fucking maturities schedule! Go get it. You have to have a maturities schedule!"
But they didn't. With all the focus on deals and earnings- with finance group's transformation into a profit center rather than a division to support the business- the workday, boring details had been sloughed off.
p. 560 — Kurt Eichenwald

I had always imagined myself hitching up on to my elbows on the delivery table after it was all over - dead white, of course, with no makeup and from the awful ordeal, but smiling and radiant, with my hair down to my waist, and reaching out for my first little squirmy child and saying its name, whatever it was. — Sylvia Plath

No matter how dark life can be, it's how we react to it that matters. Love & forgiveness instead of hate and fear, create in us a garden of healing. — Kathy Goodhew

I will never permit myself to give in to American taste and lower the standards of art. — Sholom Aleichem

When I see Tiffany windows in churches across the United States, I get a sense of spiritual upliftment from that. — Susan Vreeland

He that's content hath enough. — Benjamin Franklin

Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs. — Florence King

When two sides who consider each other enemies converge in armed struggle, for the moment they are no longer enemies. They are fellow human beings who face the same two choices that their ancestors did for centuries before them: to destroy each other or to prosper together. — Thomas Huynh

People get upset when you say you kill people. Fair enough. — Adam Sternbergh

There where the course is,
Delight makes all of the one mind,
The riders upon the galloping horses,
The crowd that closes in behind ... — William Butler Yeats

Tail wagging like a windscreen wiper in a downpour. — Louisa Bennet

Sometimes in life it is most wise to behave like a bridge: Don't judge the person who comes to you; let him come and pass! Behave like a bridge! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

To teach is to show what is possible; to learn is to make yourself possible. — Paulo Coelho

The bitch," Bobby said sarcastically. "The nerve of the woman. Going in and bringing cake - there was cake, right?" When Tommy nodded, Bobby went on. "That is some messed-up devil-woman shit. Thinking she can slide in under your radar like that! That's right out of Grimm's Fairy Tales. Maybe she'll try to cook them next! — J.H. Knight