Chervenak Obituary Quotes & Sayings

He is like any other petty tyrant of history. A slave to his own whims. A master of nothing but selfishness. He is the Society - a monster dripping in decadence, yet seeing none of his own hypocrisy. He views all this wealth, all this power, as his right. He is deluded. They all are. But I cannot cut him down from the front. No, no matter how well I fight. He is too strong. — Pierce Brown

The roughest and toughest fighter I fought was Joe Frazier — Muhammad Ali

What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends. The ability to have somebody read something and see it, or for somebody to paint an entire landscape of visual imagery with just sheets of words - that's magical. — Mos Def

I took the route favoured by all worldly failures and became a spiritual success. — Howard Jacobson

A guy who'd cheat on his wife would cheat at cards. — Texas Guinan

Among my friends love is a payment. It is an old debt for a borrowing foolishly spent. — William Dunbar

A little rebellion is good now and then. — Thomas Jefferson

We learn much during our sleep, and the knowledge thus gained slowly filters into the physical brain, and is occasionally impressed upon it as a vivid and illuminative dream. — Annie Besant

I believe there ought to be school choice, so that parents can choose within the public school system. — William H. Gray

Our essential difficulty is that we are seeking in a mechanism, which is necessary, qualities it simply does not possess. The market does not lead, balance or encourage democracy. However, properly regulated it is the most effective way to conduct business.
It cannot give leadership even on straight economic issues. The world-wide depletion of fish stocks is a recent example. The number of fish caught between 1950 and 1989 multiplied by five. The fishing fleet went from 585,000 boats in 1970 to 1.2 million in 1990 and on to 3.5 million today (1995). No one thought about the long- or even medium-term maintenance of stocks; not the fishermen, not the boat builders, not the fish wholesalers who found new uses for their product, including fertilizer and chicken feed; not the financiers. It wasn't their job. Their job was to worry about their own interests.
(IV - From Managers and Speculators to Growth) — John Ralston Saul

What a doctor or healer tells you is a reflection of the beliefs and expectations you hold. Change your beliefs and you change the prognosis. Who is the doctor? The mind of the patient. — Alan Cohen