Avtandil Gurgenidzis Quotes & Sayings

Readers re-create any story to suit their own needs. They re-clothe the story in their own shirts. Put simply: just as we write the story we need to write, they read the story they need to read. — Jane Yolen

Ours is truly a God-forsaken country. Difficult, indeed, is it for us to maintain the strength of will to do. We get no help in any real sense. There is no one, within miles of us, in converse with whom we might gain an accession of vitality. No one near seems to be thinking, or feeling, or working. Not a soul has any experience of big striving, or of really and truly living. They all eat and drink, do their office work, smoke and sleep, and chatter nonsensically. When they touch upon emotion they grow sentimental, when they reason they are childish. One yearns for a full-blooded, sturdy, and capable personality; these are all so many shadows, flitting about, out of touch with the world. — Rabindranath Tagore

The most damning and hypocritical critiques of his allegedly aristocratic economic system emanated from the most aristocratic southern slaveholders, who deflected attention from their own nefarious deeds by posing as populist champions and assailing the northern financial and mercantile interests aligned with Hamilton. As will be seen, the national consensus that the slavery issue should be tabled to preserve the union meant that the southern plantation economy was effectively ruled off-limits to political discussion, while Hamilton's system, by default, underwent the most searching scrutiny. Few, — Ron Chernow

She had a great respect for books herself, and she wished that she had read more. One could never read enough. Never. — Alexander McCall Smith

If I told you what we were doing there, I would have to kill you. — Morris Dees

Art was always my main focus; I fell into writing by accident in the 1980s, writing magazine articles to pay for my studio. I have to put myself into the position of writing; sometimes it doesn't work, and sometimes it works great. — Douglas Coupland

If you despise increase, you are a strange personality in the society — Sunday Adelaja

The difference between perspective and reality is that a person uses their perspective for their benefit and reality through appreciation. — Coco Nicole Estef

I think we have erred on the side of being too conservative so far, to tell you the truth. — Roone Arledge

the Carnegie way of doing things: calculate the productivity of every worker and every machine, cut costs, maximize profits, then repeat — Paul Beck

At first, I was called a quack, a charlatan, and worse, year after year, in Australia, England and the United States, by men who simply refused to believe that a nurse from 'the bush' could devise a treatment which succeeded where they had failed. — Elizabeth Kenny

I didn't grow up on the porch of a cabin looking out over the 90 acres that the mule was plowing with Paw-Paw playing the banjo. But I was always interested in folk music. — Ketch Secor

How could I tell you about it? It was a dream. It didn't make any fucking sense, man. But I do remember it. — Denis Johnson