Retrenchment Compensation Quotes & Sayings

About 10 years ago, in an effort to gain a better grasp on McCone's world, I took up the hobby of building fully electrified scale models: first of the legal cooperative where she started out, and then of her own brown-shingled cottage, a pursuit that the more tactful of my friends label unusual, and that the more blunt refer to as obsessive. — Marcia Muller

Take my love. One day share my life. Be my dearest, first on earth. — Charlotte Bronte

It was becoming a habit-this concentration on things behind him. Almost as though there were no future to be had. *Milkman* — Toni Morrison

As James entered the El Paso city limits, he began thinking about lyrics to a song that would describe his journey. "I'm just cruise'n in my ride, with my posse by my side." Well, he didn't have anyone by his side - not even that dumb loser Grady, but that was hardly the point. This song would be his legacy, and he wanted to get it right. It would embody the contempt that he felt for society with all its rules and restrictions. It would make him into a folk hero. He would not pretend to die for any "cause." He would let the world know that he had preferred a watery death to an existence where he was bound by mindless regulations. — Joyce Swann

I love to use these phrases - 'with the greatest respect', 'in all modest', 'I humbly submit' - which in fact always imply the complete opposite. — William Boyd

Life is the best and only timekeeper. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

The artful injury, whose venomed dart scarce wounds the hearing, while it stabs the heart. — Hannah More

Dogma is less useful than cow dung. One can make whatever one likes out of it, even revisionism ... — Mao Zedong

Construction is a matter of optimism; its a matter of facing the future with confidence. — Cesar Pelli