Terasen Gas Quotes & Sayings

To rob the public, it is necessary to deceive them. To deceive them, it is necessary to persuade them that they are robbed for their own advantage, and to induce them to accept in exchange for their property, imaginary services, and often worse. — Frederic Bastiat

Those words are from Lynda Barry's novel 'Cruddy.' I've carried them with me for some time. There's a lot in my life I wasn't expecting. One is the realization that I stood at this pulpit and delivered a reading for my own graduation ... 15 years ago. Unexpectedly, I'm old. — Jack Dorsey

I haven't been out of work since the day I took my pants off. — Sally Rand

I am sure of the fire that runs through me. I am sure of the earth I stand on. And I am sure of you. — Elizabeth Hunter

The number of those men who know how to use wholly irresponsible power humanely and generously is small. Everybody knows this, and the slave knows it best of all. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

His warmth, which seemed to presume upon some happy old intimacy we did not share, had thrown me into awkwardness. — Donna Tartt

One night a friend lent me a book of short stories by Franz Kafka. I went back to the pension where I was staying and began to read The Metamorphosis. The first line almost knocked me off the bed. I was so surprised. The first line reads, "As Gregor Samsa awoke that morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect ... " When I read the line I thought to myself that I didn't know anyone was allowed to write things like that. If I had known, I would have started writing a long time ago. So I immediately started writing short stories. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. When you desire a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it. — Lois McMaster Bujold