Safstrom And Company Quotes & Sayings

If you based your knowledge of the human species exclusively on adverts, you'd think that the normal condition of humanity was to be a good-looking single person between 20 and 35, with excellent muscle-definition and/or an excellent figure, and a large disposable income. — Francis Spufford

Live from abundance;
Utilize with economy;
Share in advance. — Geoffrey M. Gluckman

The investor who permits himself to be stampeded or unduly worried by unjustified market declines in his holdings is perversely transforming his basic advantage into a basic disadvantage. — Benjamin Graham

How can you lay siege to a whole country? Who is really under siege now? Baghdad cannot be besieged. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger, and the more alien the stranger, the stronger the whiff of negativity. We depend on the guarantee in our children's faces that we will not die. Children whose defining quality annihilates that fantasy of immortality are a particular insult; we must love them for themselves, and not for the best of ourselves in them, and that is a great deal harder to do. Loving our own children is an exercise for the imagination. — Andrew Solomon

My school is attended by near three hundred scholars. — Joseph Lancaster

When we search for something larger than our own selves to hook into, we can come through whatever life throws at us. — Anne Lamott

Men in particular need to speak more about their personal reasons for wanting diversity in the workplace. — Jane Silber

In the 21st century, somebody or something has changed the rules about how our world works. — Eddie Obeng

Take heed of winde that comes in at a hole, and a reconciled Enemy. — George Herbert

Whatever capital you divert to the support of a shiftless and good-for-nothing person is so much diverted from some other employment, and that means from somebody else. I would spend any conceivable amount of zeal and eloquence if I possessed it to try to make people grasp this idea. Capital is force. If it goes one way it cannot go another. If you give a loaf to a pauper you cannot give the same loaf to a laborer. Now this other man who would have got it but for the charitable sentiment which bestowed it on a worthless member of society is the Forgotten Man. — William Graham Sumner