John Lang
Building on the success of the Canadian Health Care System, generally acknowledged to be the most perfectly designed and efficiently delivered social program ever devised, the Canadian Government announced that it will apply the same principles to air transport.
Pierre Beemans
It came to me as one of life's little epiphanies.One of those revelations that, like a lit window at the end of a dark street, both illuminates and comforts. We were standing, George H and I, warming ourselves on a chilly June day by a street vendor's brazier on the corner of Arenales and Plaza Washington, a couple of years before the Canadian Embassy in Lima relocated in 1975 to Miraflores.
Pierre Beemans
You know how it always starts. You bend down absentmindedly to flick away a loose chip of paint on the dining room baseboard, then you scratch off a bit more, and next thing you know, you’re repainting the whole room and remodelling the kitchen.
Jim Elliott and Joan Ann
Earstwhile diplomat and former bon vivant, James Eliott was, in fact, one of the earliest targets of the federal anti-raconteuring legislation in his native land and has had a following of sorts in many of the foreign countries in which he was able to make himself even partially understood.
Jim Eliott and Joan Ann
To consult the on-line version of “Consumers’ Reports,” you will learn that the difficulty in buying a mattress can be compared, unfavourably, to buying a car.
Jim Elliott and Joan Ann
Sitting watching my geriatric cat, Mr. Higgins, come to the end of a long and presumably happy life, I am driven to muse upon the varied and various pets with whom I have shared my life.
John Lang
This book fills a much-needed gap." Moses Hadas
"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from
history that man can never learn anything from
history." - GBS
John Lang
"Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards
and in high heels."
Faith Whittlesey
John Lang
Some favourite quotations. Not exactly links, but they have been accumulating and I don't want to waste them.