Richard Mercer Quotes & Sayings

Astute observers of corporate balance sheets are often the first to see business deterioration — Benjamin Graham

You and I are walking in the snow. "Why are you walking backwards?" I ask. You point in the direction we came from. "So they'll think that's where I'm going." You point to where we're going. "And that's where I'm from. — David Levithan

That which is loved may pass, but love hath no end. — Gilbert Parker

Each person has his strong point. — Aesop

Mum would have a panic attack if she had to stand up and give a speech around a table. — Lily James

We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I fought against her, trying to mount some kind of defense, but it was like fighting Dimitri on crack. — Richelle Mead

I think one of the downsides of the sort of obsession with romantic love and personal fulfillment is that the plain fact of the matter is that those feelings don't last for ever and so they better be replaced and reinforced by things that do. — Mary Archer

It was passed on by the hook-nosed herdsmen of the grasslands, from the dwellers in tents to the dwellers in the squat stone cities where kings with curled blueblack beards worshipped round-bellied gods with curious rites. — Robert E. Howard

Youth! youth! how buoyant are thy hopes! they turn, like marigolds, toward the sunny side. — Jean Ingelow

When I think of the farm, I think of mud. Limning my husband's fingernails and encrusting the children's knees and hair. Sucking at my feet like a greedy newborn on the breast. Marching in boot-shaped patched across the plank floors of the house. There was no defeating it. The mud coated everything. I dreamed in brown. When it rained, as it often did, the yard turned into a thick gumbo, with the house floating in it like a soggy cracker. — Hillary Jordan