Checkerd Quotes & Sayings

To my crew: Please be reasonable and do it my way.
The Captain — Rusty Mills

Most people are pleasant when the world is going the way they want. But a person's character can be seen most clearly when the brokenness of the world has invaded his or her peace, when the way he or she thinks things ought to be is interrupted, disrupted, and dismantled. — Matt Chandler

We are indeed apt to ascribe certain faults to the place or to the time; but those faults will follow us, no matter how we change our place. — Seneca.

When people talk of the economy being strong, they don't seem to feel that they, too, are better off. — Daniel Kahneman

When you're not a mom, you can get up in the middle of the night, paint, sleep all morning ... you can't do that when you have two children! — Julie Mehretu

She warned me about Mr. Herondale, though, said he'd likely be rude to me, and familiar. She said I could be rude right back, that nobody would mind."
"Someone ought to be rude to him. He's rude enough to everyone else. — Cassandra Clare

I felt a wish to be fictionalized. — Hilary Mantel

The best exercise for your heart, is reaching out and helping somebody. — Tim Russert

Some forms of truth are really forms of social power and oppression. — Ken Wilber

Wherever we go, we come up against the human, a repulsive ubiquity before which we fall into stupor and revolt, a perplexity on fire. — Emile M. Cioran

A title or promotion does not make anyone a leader. Leadership emerges from the character, qualities, and capacities of the individual. Make no mistake about it, authentic leadership is personal. — George B. Bradt