Current Balance Sheets

Famous quotes containing the words balance sheets, current, balance and/or sheets:

    “Bourgeois society is infected by monomania: the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets.”
    —Simone Weil (1909–1943)

    “A reaction: a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.”
    —Victor Hugo (1802–1885)

    “Turning, I kissed her,
    Easily for sheer joy tipping the balance of love.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “Last night you lay a-sleeping? No!
    The room was thirty-five below;
    The sheets and blankets turned to snow.
    MHe’d got in: Dirty Dinky.”
    —Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)