Sarason T 8 Quotes & Sayings

Above all marriage is a new task and a new seriousness - a new challenge and a question regarding the strength and kindness of each participant and a new great danger for both. — Rainer Maria Rilke

If you attempt to implement reforms but fail to engage the culture of a school, nothing will change. — Seymour Sarason

There's an assumption that schools are for students' learning. Well, why aren't they just as much for teachers' learning? — Seymour Sarason

his secretary-press-agent-private-philosopher, Lee Sarason, yielded nothing to others'. — Sinclair Lewis

My first job was in pantomime; I was a chorus girl in 'Dick Whittington' at 16. I got the part by ringing the director daily to see if anyone had dropped out, and it paid off eventually, when I was cast as a rat! — Celia Imrie

I flexed my wrist, popped a silver needle into my palm, and offered it to him.
'What's this?'
'A needle.'
'What should I do with it?'
He'd walked right into it. Too easy. 'Please use it to pop your head. It's obscuring my view of the room.'
- Kate & Saiman — Ilona Andrews

No one, even among the Washington correspondents, seemed to know precisely how much of a part in Senator Windrip's career was taken by his secretary, Lee Sarason. When Windrip had first seized power in his state, Sarason had been managing editor of the most widely circulated paper in all that part of the country. Sarason's genesis was and remained a mystery. — Sinclair Lewis

At work, you're replaceable ... but as a parent, you're irreplaceable. — Maria Shriver

I'm tired of being thought of as Miss Goody Two-Shoes ... the girl next door, Miss Happy-Go-Lucky. — Doris Day

Average people look for ways of getting away with it; successful people look for ways of getting on with it. — Jim Rohn

If you must fail," he said grandly, "fail spectacularly! — Ransom Riggs

When you love someone, you are sure. You don't need time to decide. You don't say stop and start over and over, like you're playing some kind of sport. You know the immensity of what you have and you protect it. — Nina LaCour

I want to paint something that's gorgeous, something that's perfect. So that it's full of sadness. — Gary Hume

Isn't the universe full of gaseous elements?"
Andrew says, "Yeah, there are gases and neutrinos and this shit they call dark matter. — Michael Cunningham

Let's face it: Serious self-scrutiny has not been one of our notable characteristics. We are far more aware of what we want to change in others than we are of how we need to change. Salvation for our educational ills is only secondarily "out there." Primarily it will have to come from within an educational community willing to say that we have met the enemy and it is us. — Seymour Sarason

Good friends are good for your health — Irwin G. Sarason

It is virtually impossible to create and sustain over time conditions for productive learning for students when they do not exist for teachers.
-Seymour Sarason — Diane Sweeney

You forgot 'dashingly handsome.' Dear friend is nice but hardly covers the extent of my qualities."

Eleanor looks up from her own letter writing. "How did she describe me? Because I have always preferred my eyes to be referred to as the 'color of a storm-tossed sea.' If either of you were wondering."

"You did not fare much better. In fact, I think I am ahead. I am a 'dear friend,' and you are merely 'recently ill. — Kiersten White

From the Eucharist comes strength to live the Christian life and zeal to share that life with others — Pope John Paul II

As far as I know, I'm the most honest person I've met in this life. — Pat R

Salvation for our educational ills ... will have to come from within an educational community willing to say we have met the enemy and it is us. — Seymour Sarason

Friedmans influence reaches far beyond the academic community and the world of economics. Rather than lock himself in an ivory tower, he has joined the fray to fight for the survival of this great country of ours. — William E. Simon