Leo Ascendant Quotes

#1. They really can't afford to be contrarians. A major investment house can't afford to do research for five customers who won't generate a lot of commissions.

Peter Cundill

#2. As the graduates were called to the stage to collect their diplomas, I shook every hand. Many stopped to give me a hug. One young woman even told me I was "the baddest bitch" (which, having checked with someone later, actually did turn out to be a compliment).

Sheryl Sandberg

#3. Approximately 80 percent of criminal defendants are indigent and thus unable to hire a lawyer.64 Yet our nation's public defender system is woefully inadequate.

Michelle Alexander

#4. And always Melbourne, Melbourne, Melbourne, over and over the same photo in glaring greens and reds, of a tram, huffy, blunderous, manoeuvring itself with pole akimbo round the tight corner where Bourke Street enters Spring.

Helen Garner

#5. I always want off-the-beaten-path, Anthony Bourdain-inspired travel.

Meghan Markle

#6. A man's only as good as his word.

Rodd Thunderheart

#7. Common sense is the enemy of sticky messages, if I already "get" what you're trying to tell me, why should I be obsessed about remembering it.

Chip Heath

#8. Things really began to move for us. In 1953 I could afford to marry Doreen.

Ernie Wise

#9. I have to.
I've been fighting it all night. I'm going to lose. My battle is as futile as a woman feeling the first pangs of labor and deciding it's an inconvenient time to give birth. Nature wins out. It always does.

Kelley Armstrong

#10. Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row.

Danny Glover

#11. Though my father was poor and had nothing, the Torah, the poetry of prophets, was his daily bread.

Anzia Yezierska

#12. The most exciting mobile trend is full Qwerty keyboards. I'm sorry, it really is. I'm not making this up.

Mike Lazaridis