Unchaperoned Quotes

#1. Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.

Sappho

#2. Can you imagine...the detrimental effect on your marriage prospects, to be found unchaperoned in a library with a dead vampire!

Gail Carriger

#3. I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be inside it.
[Patrick Ness slams library cuts (The Guardian, 23 June 2011)]

Patrick Ness

#4. In financial terms, my sense is that the distribution of wealth, unequal as it is, is self-perpetuating, and, especially in a linked and accelerating world, the rich get ever more quickly richer while the poor get ever more speedily poorer.

Pico Iyer

#5. Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#6. But in China, even as rates of divorce have climbed, so much of the culture revolves around family and offspring that 98 percent of the female population eventually marries - one of the highest levels in the world.

Evan Osnos

#7. She's in that show on the CW, what's it called, Uncovered? She plays a teenage hooker." "A hooker?" Stevie said. "A teenager?" Susan Carol said. "That woman plays a teenager? You're kidding, right?

John Feinstein

#8. I work on the boundary between economics and statistics in this field called econometrics. Part of my interest is understanding how you use statistics in productive ways to analyze dynamic economic models.

Lars Peter Hansen

#9. In the words of Madame Leota in the film The Haunted Mansion, 'You try, you fail, you try, you fail, but the only true failure is when you stop trying

Carrie Hope Fletcher

#10. Fortunately, when you spend a lot of time in space, you learn how to shit in a bag.

Andy Weir

#11. I wasn't sure, but something was telling me that love like this didn't come along all that often - I sure hadn't seen much of it in my lifetime - and I shouldn't just walk away from a gift that precious.

Elle Casey

#12. Defending mediocrity is exhausting.

Seth Godin

#13. My childhood dream was always to be on Broadway. I wanted to end up in TV and film. It's kind of flipped, and I'm not mad about it, but my childhood dream is Broadway and I want to end up there.

Grant Gustin

#14. Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.

Mao Zedong

#15. Whatever fosters militarism makes for barbarism; whatever fosters peace makes for civilization.

Herbert Spencer

#16. A significant number of research studies have documented that heart disease is easily and almost completely preventable through a diet rich in plant produce and lower in processed foods and animal products.

Joel Fuhrman

#17. When literature becomes overly erudite, it means that interest in the art has gone and curiosity about the artist is what's important. It becomes a kind of idolatry.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

#18. There is not even a Scrabble word for how bad I feel.

E. Lockhart