Thewind Quotes & Sayings

It's so important your customer can rely on you for your classics. — L'Wren Scott

If we didn't have greed, market economies wouldn't be as innovative as they are. But in my view, greed has to be contained by the fear of losses, so there has to be a system where, if you take too much risk, you go into bankruptcy. You don't systematically bail out people who take excessive risks. — Nouriel Roubini

I've gotten very alert not just to mixed metaphor but to any writing mistake. — Lydia Davis

I have one vivid memory of one of the days that the marches were taking place. We were in a Catholic, predominantly Polish and Lithuanian neighborhood. Chicago is a place where people define themselves by their parish and by their ethnicity. — Sara Paretsky

Not so with our characters. They have no metaphysics, no order, no law. They are miserable and they don't know why. They are puppets, undone. In short, they represent modern man. Their situation is not tragic, since it has no relation to a higher order. Instead, it's ridiculous, laughable, and derisory. — Eugene Ionesco

Expatriated Americans, even Henry James himself, have always seemed to me somewhat anchorless, rudderless, drifting before thewind. — Virginia Gildersleeve

Better suffer ill, then doe ill.
[Better suffer ill, than do ill.] — George Herbert

hear the storm raging, could still see — Julia London

Policeman are soldiers who act alone; soldiers are policeman who act in unison. — Herbert Spencer

Then give me your pain, Master. I can bear it as long as I know your lips will touch every mark when you're done, signing it as your work. — Joey W. Hill

There is a charm in Solitude that cheers
A feeling that the world knows nothing of
A green delight the wounded mind endears
After the hustling world is broken off — John Clare

Although it's easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket ... it's part-ownership of a business. — Peter Lynch