Chief Gillespie Quotes & Sayings

For too many generations of the common people of Rome were allowed no hand in governing, and their state religion had long since mummified into dry rituals that never touched ordinary passions. It was inevitable, proclaimed the dour scholars of the philosophical schools, that the Colosseum would become their chief temple and the fortunes of gladiators would be watched more closely than the rise and fall of nations. — Donna Gillespie

It has been observed of the warring Turks, that often they used this notable deceit - to send a lying rumor and a vain tumult of war to one place, but, in the meanwhile, to address their true forces to another place, that so they might surprise those who have been unwarily led by pernicious credulity. So have we manifest (alas! too, too manifest) reasons to make us conceive, that whilst the chief urgers of the course of conformity are skirmishing with us about the trifling ceremonies (as some men count them), they are but laboring to hold our thoughts so bent and intent upon those smaller quarrels, that we may forget to distinguish between evils immanent and evils imminent, and that we be not too much awake to espy their secret slight in compassing further aims. — George Gillespie

We don't have butlers. Obviously we have people who look after the houses, but I try not to run things formally. — Andrew Lloyd Webber

He loves me
he loves me not
He loves her
He loves her not
He loves me
He loves me not
-I ran out of petals — Amanda Lovelace

The FBI and the CIA hate each other, and they both hate the telephone company. The telephone company, in turn, seems to hate everybody. — John A. Keel

He did not have time to wallow, to give a moment's thought to what may have happened to her or whether she was alive.

Turn into the punch, grab hold of the gun, leap into the arena. Attack.

He had to move. Now. — G.S. Jennsen

So, I am independently well-off and don't have to do anything, but I still do. I write books, lecture around the world, work with scientists and governments. — Uri Geller

The foundation of government is ... laid, not in imaginary rights of men, (which at best is a confusion of judicial with civil principles,) but in political convenience, and in human nature; either as that nature is universal, or as it is modified by local habits and social aptitudes. The foundation of government ... is laid in a provision for our wants, and in a conformity to our duties; it is to purvey for the one; it is to enforce the other. — Edmund Burke

In the morning, when he entered my room, I grumbled, but he was like the sunlight to me, all the same. One cannot defend oneself against those brats. They take hold of you, they hold you fast, they never let you go again. The truth is, that there never was a cupid like that child. — Victor Hugo

If obedience is the chief thing good stood upon, why are not other laws and statutes urged as strictly as those which concern ceremonies? — George Gillespie

There is only one emotion, one energy, in the universe: the energy, the emotion, that we call Love. When you know this, everything changes. — Neale Donald Walsch

The good chair is a task one is never completely done with — Hans Wegner

Yes, there was an element of abstraction and unreality in misfortune. But when an abstraction starts to kill you, you have to get to work on it. — Albert Camus

There is something fantastic about getting divorced. Everyone should do it to experience the extraordinary sense of freedom after being in marriage jail. — Delia Ephron

I felt the most effective way to change people's perception was through the power of images. — Alix Smith

I would rather buy Indian equities than the S&P 500. — Marc Faber