“An economist is the fellow who’ll figure out tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn’t happen today.”
D.P. Diffiné, “The 1993 American Incentive System Almanac”.
“As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson, quoted on www.brainyquote.com/quotes/ralph_waldo_emerson_384371
“what William James charitably called ‘earnest and helpless minds.’”
Daniel Boorstin The Genius of American Politics
Re the iPod Canada site opening and having 700,000 songs “it’s striking that almost everyone I’ve asked took only about 10 minutes to discover what they couldn’t find. As they used to say on MTV, too much is never enough.”
Paul Wells in Maclean’s December 20, 2004
“A ceñoso is something too low to kick and too wet to step on.”
A character on the TV show Hunter March 21, 1991.
“There is no way a man can earn a star or deserve a sunset.”
G.K. Chesterton, regarding his fiancee, quoted by Robert More-Jumonville in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 4 # 5 (March 2001)
“There is a widespread desire everywhere to have human rights declared, protected and advanced.”
Michael Novak in First Things November 2002
“In a series of alarming graphs – alarming even to those who don’t find all graphs alarming…”
William Watson in National Post January 2, 2002