Chessen Associates Quotes & Sayings

If a plague carried off the members of a society all at once, it is obvious that the group would be permanently done for. Yet the death of each of its constituent members is as certain as if an epidemic took them all at once. But the graded difference in age, the fact that some are born as some die, makes possible through transmission of ideas and practices the constant reweaving of the social fabric. Yet this renewal is not automatic. Unless pains are taken to see that genuine and thorough transmission takes place, the most civilized group will relapse into barbarism and then into savagery. — John Dewey

I had a tumor in my left eye which killed the optic nerve, but it's my real eye. I just cannot see out of it. — Sandy Duncan

I have been wrongly accused; and you, ma'am, and everybody else, will now think me wicked."
"We shall think you what you prove yourself to be, my child. Continue to act as a good girl, and you will satisfy us. — Charlotte Bronte

The world never leaves one in ignorance or in peace. — Ouida

Finding our joy requires no leaping. It only wishes we'd opt for being lifted. — Kelly Corbet

Some people's spirits, but some of them will never be dull not be blunted. — Mehmet Kececi

In America, we celebrate success. We don't apologize for success. — Mitt Romney

Your job is the relentless pursuit of who God made you to be. And anything else you do is sin and you need to repent of it. — Rob Bell

When were we the most egalitarian country in the world? When we had the Glass/Steagal Act, which prevented the banks from becoming the criminal operations that they've become. — Gerald Celente

Let us first understand the facts and then we may seek the cause. — Aristotle.

I tend not to analyse my work, though I'm frequently intrigued when other people take time to do so. — Tanith Lee