Dortmunder Gold Quotes & Sayings

Unlike any other nation, here the people rule, and their will is the supreme law. It is sometimes sneeringly said by those who do not like free government, that here we count heads. True, heads are counted, but brains also ... — William McKinley

Patience is the Gnostic's scale and the humble the garden's door. — Samael Aun Weor

But while all fear is not laziness, much fear is exactly that. Much of our fear is fear of a change in the status quo, a fear that we might lose what we have if we venture forth from where we are now. In the section on discipline I spoke of the fact — M. Scott Peck

Keep in mind how fast things pass by and are gone - those that are now, and those to come. Existence flows past us like a river; the "what" is in constant flux, the "why" has a thousand variations. Nothing is stable, not even what's right here. The infinity of past and future gapes before us - a chasm whose depths we cannot see. — Marcus Aurelius

Nowadays, if you are afraid of confrontation, you are not going to do very well. — Bill Parcells

Death is a debt to nature due, Which I have paid, and so must you. — Thomas Pynchon

People imagine that there are rituals, like lighting candles or sacrificing chickens. They really just want to know what the magic formula is for writing. I inevitably disappoint them by saying you just put your butt in the chair, and you write 500 words a day, and then you get up and repeat it the next morning. — John Scalzi

Unlearn your knowledge about what WAS working to understand what is working NOW — Roger James Hamilton

There are certainly a billion, ker-trillion girls out there more attractive than I am. — Marcia Gay Harden

Miss Bennet was therefore established as a sweet girl, and their brother felt authorized by such a commendation to think of her as he chose. — Jane Austen

My hurt has pushed me into my destiny! I was created for this. — Alisha Broughton

Don't waste yer' breath kid. Explainin' anything to that one? It's like tryin' ta' slap the dumb off a retard ... -George Foster — Shawn Durnin

Louisville is a place with no labels. It's not the South, it's not Chicago, and you don't think of it as you think of New York or LA. It has some Southern romanticism to it, but also a Northern progressivism, this weird urban island in the middle of the state of Kentucky that has always provided a fertile, often dark, bed. For us, Louisville and the surrounding areas are the center of massive creativity and massive weirdness. The place has its flaws: You move away, but you're always going to come back. — Jim James