Chairpersons Toolkit Quotes & Sayings

I cannot escape the feeling that I was, at best, a cancer tourist, that my survival means I dabbled. — David Rakoff

The moment is past. The chessboard has gone; and the people. You must let me take the room from you too. — Dorothy Dunnett

You're a defiant act of creation. You're a whole solar system pretending to be a person. — Elisabeth Hewer

Some readers may realize that this story, first published in 1956, has been overtaken by events. In 1965, astronomers discovered that Mercury does not keep one side always to the Sun, but has a period of rotation of about fifty-four days, so that all parts of it are exposed to the sunlight at one time or another.
Well, what can I do except say that I wish astronomers would get things right to begin with?
And I certainly refuse to change the story to suit their whims. — Isaac Asimov

The great joy of doing 'The Daily Show' for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I am commenting on the absurdity of both sides as an outsider and insider. Sometimes I'm playing the brown guy, and sometimes I'm not, but the best stuff I do always goes back to being a brown kid in a white world. — Aasif Mandvi

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

There are many things that are thorns to our hopes until we have attained them, and envenomed arrows to our hearts when we have. — Victor De Riqueti, Marquis De Mirabeau

Families represent the basic building blocks of our society, and primary care a foundational piece of any healthcare system. — Tony Tan

The impulse to acquisition, pursuit of gain, of money, of the greatest possible amount of money, has in itself nothing to do with capitalism. This impulse exists and has existed among waiters, physicians, coachmen, artists, prostitutes, dishonest officials, soldiers, nobles, crusaders, gamblers, and beggars. — Max Weber

I cannot stand Tolstoy, and reading him was the most boring literary duty I ever had to perform, his philosophy and his sense of life are not merely mistaken, but evil, and yet, from a purely literary viewpoint, on his own terms, I have to evaluate him as a good writer. — Ayn Rand

I know quite a few fellow members of the news analysis and commentary business, and I have it from the highest-placed sources, on the record, that each and every one of our children is a genius. — P. J. O'Rourke

The Lord's Prayer is the most perfect piece of poetry. I always feel at peace and moved when I recite it. — Mary Quant

In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power. — Henry Kissinger