Gabirol Para Quotes & Sayings

Pusillanimous. Talisman. — Christina Baker Kline

Life is like a movie-since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it. — Garry Trudeau

And what of the masses in this intellectual's paradise? They have found in the intellectual the most formidable taskmaster in history. No other regime has treated the masses so callously as raw material, to be experimented on and manipulated at will; and never before have so many lives been wasted so recklessly in war and in peace. On top of all this, the Communist intelligentsia has been using force in a wholly novel manner. The traditional master uses force to exact obedience and lets it go at that. Not so the intellectual. Because of his professed faith in the power of words and the irresistibility of the truths which supposedly shape his course, he cannot be satisfied with mere obedience. He tries to obtain by force a response that is usually obtained by the most perfect persuasion, and he uses Terror as a fearful instrument to extract faith and fervor from crushed souls. — Eric Hoffer

A lot of people who saw 'The Avengers' didn't read comic books, don't like comic book movies, and enjoyed it. That was huge for me. — Joss Whedon

I don't think that understanding produces change. Learning produces change. — Richard Bandler

I cannot subscribe to the perverted reasoning that society may advance and strengthen the rule of law by the expenditure of morally innocent lives but that progress in the law may never be made at the price of morally guilty lives. — Robert H. Jackson

I'm a much healthier person through my relationship with my husband. I've become a more fulfilled person - it's a great partnership. — Cate Blanchett

Most high-level models that I've ever met are actually well-travelled; they're cultured, and no guy laying a cheesy line on them is actually going to impact their world. — Hannah Simone

One must not look inward too much, while the inside is yet tender. I do not wish to frighten myself until I can stand it. — Djuna Barnes

He smelt of the sun, as if it had seeped deep into his skin, and I found myself inhaling silently, as if he were something delicious. — Jojo Moyes

I am a blogger - that is an amazing thing for me, because it captures a moment in time every day. — Mena Grabowski Trott

Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Please,' Neil shook the stinging fluid out of his eyes. Don't beg. You'll appear weak DO NOT BEG. 'Please, I'm begging you. Don't take my bike. It's all I have left and I ... I ...' he looked behind him in the direction of the city, 'I can't go back. — Teresa Schulz

My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute. — Ayn Rand

What is the use of making everybody rich if the rich themselves are miserable? — Bertrand Russell