Charles Geschke Quotes & Sayings

Press and gloom make recognition difficult. Man and wife are strangers two paces apart to mention only this most intimate of all bonds. Let them move on till they are close enough to touch and then without pausing on their way exchange a look. If they recognize each other it does not appear. Whatever it is they are searching for it is not that. — Samuel Beckett

I admire the female sex. The life makers. It must be amazing to have a body that can carry an entire creature inside. (I mean, other than a tapeworm, which I've had. That doesn't count as another life, really. That's a parasite and should never have been there in the first place.) — Garth Stein

Although some people think that life is a battle, it is actually a game of giving and receiving. — Florence Scovel Shinn

No one has the right to enter literature without fresh new ideas. We've got too many dexterous drudges as it is. — Jan Neruda

I don't have pressure on me. I just put pressure on myself to play hard every day. — Hanley Ramirez

A beautiful battle is one you don't have to fight — Robert Jordan

Make sure you love what you do and do what you love, the rest of the world be damned. Everything else is negotiable. — Kevis Hendrickson

There was a warmth of fury in his last phrases. He meant she loved him more than he her. Perhaps he could not love her. Perhaps she had not in herself that which he wanted. It was the deepest motive of her soul, this self-mistrust. It was so deep she dared neither realise nor acknowledge. Perhaps she was deficient. Like an infinitely subtle shame, it kept her always back. If it were so, she would do without him. She would never let herself want him. She would merely see. — D.H. Lawrence

A metaphysical conclusion is either a false conclusion or a concealed experimental conclusion. — Hermann Von Helmholtz

Kids suffering, with no opportunities for lack of having their basic human needs [met], like food, health, and education, but at the same time, [it] motivates me to keep fighting for them, for the ones less fortunate. — Patricia Velasquez

One of the things that's difficult for people to understand is when you join the military, you don't sign up as an endorsement of any particular policy of the moment. — Phil Klay