Theres another way we are getting behind business – by sorting out the banks. Taxpayers bailed you out. Now its time for you to repay the favour and start lending to Britains small businesses. – David Cameron
You hear entertainers all the time, saying, If I couldnt get paid for this, Id do it for free. Whens the last time you ever heard a business person say, If I couldnt get paid for being chairman of British Petroleum, Id do it for free? – Dick Gregory
I have come one step away from everything. And here I stay, far from everything, one step away. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments; it is a whole-time job. – W. Somerset Maugham
Seeing that our thirst was increasing and the water was killing us, while the storm did not abate, we agreed to trust to God, Our Lord, and rather risk the perils of the sea than wait there for certain death from thirst. – Alvar N. C. de Vaca