Portney Company Quotes & Sayings

Capitalism is a forest fire that is never extinguished, only contained. — Bryan Appleyard

Second chances are not given to make things right, but are given to prove that we could be even better after we fall. Unknown — Melanie Harlow

Southam's research was only one of hundreds of similarly unethical studies. Beecher published a detailed list of the twenty-two worst offenders, including researchers who'd injected children with hepatitis and others who'd poisoned patients under anesthesia using carbon dioxide. Southam's study was included as example number 17. Despite scientists' fears, the ethical crackdown didn't slow scientific progress. In fact, research flourished. And much of it involved HeLa. — Rebecca Skloot

Artists have no less talents than ever, their taste, their vision, their sentiment are often interesting; they are mighty in their independence and feeble only in their works. — George Santayana

I am definitely most proud of 'American Dreams.' — Tom Verica

When one removes this factor by surgical repair, the patient is cast adrift from the more or less acceptable emotional protection it has offered and soon he finds, to his surprise and discomfort, that life is not all smooth sailing even for those with unblemished, "ordinary" faces. He is unprepared to cope with this situation without the support of a "handicap," and he may turn to the less simple, but similar, protection of the behavior patterns of neurasthenia, hysterical conversion, hypochondriasis or the acute anxiety states.17 — Erving Goffman

I thought comedy would be the hardest thing I could do, and if I could do that, I could do anything. — Rodney Carrington

Round the world and home again, that's the sailor's way! — William Allingham

I am not good wife material because I'm fiercely independent and like to go off and do my own thing. — Amanda Harlech

Far more people make a living as professional chess players today than ever before. Thanks partly to the availability of computer programs and online matches, there has been a mini-boom in chess interest among young people in many countries. — Kenneth Rogoff

One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty. — Joseph Joubert

When we first fell in love in the dead of winter, we said, "If we aren't more in love in lilactime, we shall be finished." But we were more in love: for love must grow or die. — Sheldon Vanauken