Ed Gilligan Quotes & Sayings

What was sleep? A blessing, a respite from life, an echo of death, a demanding nuisance? — Colleen McCullough

There is still zero empirical evidence that anthropogenic production of CO2 is making any measurable contribution to the world's present warming trend. — Alexander Cockburn

Because she is my sister and I am her protector. And since I failed in that duty in life, I will satisfy it in death. — Anna Kay Akana

The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own. — Ned Rorem

You didn't find strength when you couldn't live without it. You found it when you had someone or something you loved so much that it forced you to stretch the edges of yourself further than you thought was possible. — Martina Boone

Is it possible to grow wiser without knowing it? One hopes so. We all hope so. — Edward Abbey

The mode of founding a college is, commonly, to get up a subscription of dollars and cents, and then, following blindly the principles of a division of labor to its extreme,
a principle which should never be followed but with circumspection,
to call in a contractor who makes this a subject of speculation, ... and for these oversights successive generations have to pay. — Henry David Thoreau

People who are government servants, public servants, should not be paid more than the taxpayers who are paying for it. — Mitt Romney

You this day, gentlemen, assume new characters, enter into new relations, and consequently incur new duties. You have, by the favor of Providence and the attention of your friends, received a public education, the purpose whereof hath been to qualify you the better to serve your Creator and your country ... — William Samuel Johnson

Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why don't they take up their own causes and obvious needs? — Dorothy Thompson

Is his manhood a sham? Does he love himself or hate himself? I don't think he knows. Or it changes minute to minute. Or the question is so implicit in everything he does that he can't get outside it to answer — Don DeLillo