Casson Quotes

#1. [When asked if she had ever considered divorcing Sir Lewis Casson:] Divorce? Never. But murder often!

Sybil Thorndike

#2. He was, in military life, a sergeant. Casson had already guessed that by the time he got around to mentioning it. A sergeant: good at getting things done. By the book so long as it worked. By being crooked if that's what it took.

Alan Furst

#3. The British love permanence more than they love beauty.

Hugh Casson

#4. All that changing of plates and flapping of napkins while you wait 40 minutes for your food.

Hugh Casson

#5. Empowerment is the inner joy of knowing that external force isn't necessary to be at harmony with oneself.

Wayne Dyer

#6. Architecture cannot be understood without some knowledge of the society it serves.

Hugh Casson

#7. Net - the biggest word in the language of business.

Herbert Newton Casson

#8. A true Leader asks advice, when he has time to think; but he never asks advice in a crisis. He acts.

Herbert Newton Casson

#9. Goodness is always an asset. A man who is straight, friendly and useful may never be famous, but he is respected and liked by all who know him. He has laid a sound foundation for success and he will have a worthwhile life.

Herbert Newton Casson

#10. To have a purpose that is worthwhile, and that is steadily being accomplished, that is one of the secrets of life that is worth living.

Herbert Newton Casson

#11. The man who broods over the past can never master the difficulties of today. Every wise man learn to forget.

Herbert Newton Casson

#12. Our belief in a limited and impoverished identity is such a strong habit that without it we are afraid we wouldn't know how to be.

Jack Kornfield

#13. At the close of life the question will be not how much have you got, but how much have you given; not how much have you won, but how much have you done; not how much have you saved, but how much have you sacrificed; how much have you loved and served, not how much were you honored.

Nathan C. Schaeffer

#14. If you want to live life, embrace change.

Sunday Adelaja

#15. I'm broken, and no one can fix it. I've tried. I'm still trying. I can't love anyone because it's not fair to anyone who loves me back. I'll never hurt you ... But I can't promise I won't pick you apart, piece by piece, until you're in a thousand pieces just like me.

Jennifer Niven

#16. Every winner has scars.

Herbert Newton Casson

#17. Mine was the role of the oilcan in making the machinery clunk around.

Hugh Casson

#18. We have something very valuable, for which we have not yet found an application in this life

Sunday Adelaja

#19. It is not size that counts in business. Some companies with $500,000 capital net more profits than other companies with $5,000,000. Size is a handicap unless efficiency goes with it.

Herbert Newton Casson

#20. There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Herbert Newton Casson

#21. There is more power in the open hand than in the clenched fist.

Herbert Newton Casson

#22. For many children, it's seeing a beloved relative ill and in pain that leads them to want to become doctors. But, for me, it was watching my grandma get better.

Michael Greger

#23. His hands slipped down her neck and landed on her shoulders. Tipping his chin down, his fevered eyes met hers. Are you sure that's what you want, Bridget? Because once I start, I won't stop again. I will take you - take you so hard that every breath afterward is only going to remind you of me.

J. Lynn

#24. A leader must face danger. He must take the risk and the blame, and the brunt of the storm.

Herbert Newton Casson

#25. If you look at the state of our planet, the next generations won't be around if we consider sustainability as a gimmick.

Jochen Zeitz

#26. If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor - poor in happiness, poor in all that makes life worth living.

Herbert Newton Casson

#27. As a child, that had meant looking forward to holidays and birthdays and, most of all, becoming a grown-up. Upon achieving adulthood she had discovered that being a grown-up wasn't nearly as satisfying as she had anticipated. What was more, the future was uncomfortably unpredictable. At

Jayne Ann Krentz

#28. Steel can be tempered and hardened, and so can men. In this world of struggle, which was not designed for softies, a man must be harder than what hits him. Yes, he must be diamond-hard. Then he'll not be "fed up" with his little personal troubles.

Herbert Newton Casson

#29. The reaper can be produced only in countries where labor receives a high reward, where farmers own their own acres without fear of being despoiled by invading armies, where average of intelligence is as high in the country as in the city.

Herbert Newton Casson