quotes about Cannons

“I think that the best companies are companies that have a real purpose.”

“The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better - it is just turning around as usual.”

“The evil, Sir, is enormous; the inevitable suffering incalculable. Do not stain the fair fame of the country. . . . Nations of dependent Indians, against their will, under color of law, are driven from their homes into the wilderness. You cannot explain it; you cannot reason it away. . . . Our friends will view this measure with sorrow, and our enemies alone with joy. And we ourselves, Sir, when the interests and passions of the day are past, shall look back upon it, I fear, with self-reproach, and a regret as bitter as unavailing.”

“I had a hard time at school because I worked, so I was quite often out of school, which meant that I didn't make many friends. It can happen to child actors, because you're not in the school environment. And I did miss that school environment and being around people.”

“TARP is funded by taxpayers, so there are many rules about how that money can and can't be used. The result: GM spends an awful lot of time checking in with the people who administer TARP over everything from hiring to executive compensation and management. For a global company, that adds up to a lot of distraction.”

Source : "Ed Whitacre: Time for 'Government Motors' to Hit the Road" by Edward Whitacre, Jr., www.wsj.com. September 19, 2012.

“It may be true that love is blind, but only for what is ugly: its sight is keen enough for what is beautiful.”

“She is very plain. What does Henry see in her?'" "He thinks she's stupid. He finds it restful.”

“My parents split up when I was about 2. I realize more and more how much I'm like my father. My gentleness comes from my mother.”

Source : Interview with Jayson Greene, pitchfork.com. June 22, 2012.

“Nonresistance, nonjudgment, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living.”

“Love is dead; let lovers' eyes, Locked in endless dreams, The extremes of all extremes, Ope no more, for now Love dies.”