Caseworker Quotes & Sayings

The stamp is something left over from an inpatient hospital program. In some other program RELEASED used to mean a client was set free. Now it means a client is dead. Nobody wanted to special-order a stamp that said DEAD. The caseworker told me this a few years ago when the suicides started back up again. Ashes to ashes. Dust to dust. This is how things get recycled. — Chuck Palahniuk

Barabbas ("Son of the Father") is a kind of Messianic figure. Two interpretations of Messianic hope are juxtaposed here in the offer of the Passover amnesty. In terms of Roman law, it is a case of two criminals convicted of the same offense - two rebels against the Pax Romana. It is clear that Pilate prefers the nonviolent "fanatic" that he sees in Jesus. Yet the crowd and the Temple authorities have different categories. If the Temple aristocracy felt constrained to declare: "We have no king but Caesar" (Jn 19:15), this only appears to be a renunciation of Israel's Messianic hope: "We do not want this king" is what they mean. They would like to see a different solution to the problem. Again and again, mankind will be faced with this same choice: to say yes to the God who works only through the power of truth and love, or to build on something tangible and concrete - on violence. Jesus — Pope Benedict XVI

You know that day after day of, Oh God what am I going to do with myself feeling? The fear of the emptiness that it implies keeps me going. — Anish Kapoor

In compassionate men, severity is a virtue. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Part of her doing suicide intervention is my caseworker has to mix me another gin and tonic. — Chuck Palahniuk

She wears those old fashioned pj's like body armour. Going to bed these days is like wresting with Kevlar. — Poppet

Every experience, however bitter, has its lesson, and to focus one's attention on the lesson helps one overcome the bitterness. — Edward Howard Griggs

Every day after I wake up, I think, 'Wait ... this can't be real; I'm still going to wake up.' — Michael Phelps

However, the fact that an economist offers a theoretical analysis does not and should not automatically command respect. What is needed is some assurance that the analysis is actually relevant. — Paul Krugman

Now we have no God. We have had two: the old God that our fathers handed down to us, that we hated, and never liked; the new one that we made for ourselves, that we loved; but now he has flitted away from us, and we see what he was made of - the shadow of our highest ideal, crowned and throned. Now we have no God. — Olive Schreiner

It is the role of the BCYF caseworker to simply go along for the ride, so that if by some miracle it reaches the trial stage, everything has been done the way the government likes it. — Jodi Picoult

And I'm working with all these great people at Sony Publishing. — Christy Romano

I like underdogs, I like anti-heroes - people that have a hard time overcoming things in life. — Matthias Schoenaerts

very dull object. — Christian Rudder

A man's got to carry something besides a corroded liver with him out of that dark backwood and abysm of time, and it might as well be the little black books. — Robert Penn Warren

The truth is there's always been someone to tell me what to do. The church. The people who I work for. The caseworker. And I can't stand the idea of being alone. I can't bear the thought of being free.
Survivor — Chuck Palahniuk

It's a great privilege to not know where you'll end up, just where you're headed. It's the only way to get there. — Brianna Wiest

When business became big business - conglomerates employing hundreds and even thousands of people - companies divided themselves into still smaller units. — Jill Lepore