Perpetuities Vs Annuities Quotes & Sayings

I would go to them and I would explain this is the price of going forward. We're going to move ahead in all these other areas. We're moving ahead in tax reform and GST, we are moving ahead on trade, but this will not be done at the cost of the environment. — Brian Mulroney

I've got spider veins all over my legs, so I wear opaque tights all winter. All sorts of colours. — Sally Phillips

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts, and beer. — Abraham Lincoln

Even toward the middle of the century, there were occasions when the London mailbag for Edinburgh was found to contain only a single letter. — Bernard Bailyn

It is not a terrible thing to a wretched soul, when it shall lie roaring perpetually in the flames of hell, and the God of mercy himself shall laugh at them; when ... God shall mock them instead of relieving them; when none in heaven or earth can help them but God, and he shall rejoice over them in their calamity — Richard Baxter

Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me. — Abraham Joshua Heschel

We, who should know better, reinforce every patient's desire to hide from the reality of his own mortality. — Michael J. Collins

A corpse is what's left after waking too often. — Cesare Pavese

It was the garden of a man who wanted to rule the world but couldn't, and so had cut the world down to his own size. — Anthony Horowitz

There is an error common to both oligarchies and to democracies: in the latter the demagogues, when the multitude are above the law, are always cutting the city in two by quarrels with the rich, whereas they should always profess to be maintaining their cause; just as in oligarchies the oligarchs should profess to maintain the cause of the people, . — Aristotle.

Even the wheel of fortune can run over you. — Ljupka Cvetanova