Casie Mason Quotes & Sayings

One man's wickedness may easily become all men's curse. — Publilius Syrus

You want to save the world."
"What's wrong with that?"
He sighed in exasperation. "You are too young to understand. People get by."
"I don't want to get by. I want to know my life's been useful. — Jane Rogers

He don't read. You know he doesn't have a book in his office? Not a fucking book in the shelves. Ain't that some shit? (Adolph Mongo speaking of Kwame Kilpatrick) — Charlie LeDuff

What you do today can improve all your tomorrows. — Ralph Marston

If democracy brings an undemocratic group to power, is that a victory for democracy? — Richard Engel

The good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties. This exercise must occupy a complete lifetime. One swallow does make a spring, nor does one fine day. Excellence is a habit, not an event. — Aristotle.

This, it occurred to me, this was the undisciplined human community that, fired by its dull collective wit, now drove the armed nation towards it knew-not-what sort of epic martial cataclysm: a massive flailing organism with all the rectitude and foresight of an untrained puppy.

--In the private letters of Albert Sloane, by permission of the Sloane family. — George Saunders

What, exactly, is the Internet? Basically it is a global network exchanging digitized data in such a way that any computer, anywhere, that is equipped with a device called a "modem" can make a noise like a duck choking on a kazoo. — Dave Barry

Inheritance and culture obscure people's higher capacities. — Idries Shah

History is thorough, and passes through many phases when it bears an old figure to the grave. The last phase of a world historical figure is its comedy. — Karl Marx

I've always wanted to serve my country in some capacity. — Pete Coors

Who you are is a mystery no one can answer, not even you. — Jamaica Kincaid

Memory of the knife will be gone when the flesh is gone. — John Steinbeck

I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed. — Oliver Stone

As all-consuming as a young girl's fancies were ... a woman's desires could be twice as dangerous. — Teresa Medeiros