Gaffs Real Estate Quotes & Sayings

WWI is a romantic war, in all senses of the word. An entire generation of men and women left the comforts of Edwardian life to travel bravely, and sometimes even jauntily, to almost certain death. At the very least, any story or novel about WWI is about innocence shattered in the face of experience. — Anita Shreve

Do you have no sense of self-preservation? — Nalini Singh

Ninety percent of games lose money; 10 percent make a lot of money. And there's a consistency around the competitive advantages you create, so if you can actually learn how to do the art, the design, and the programming, you would be consistently very profitable. — Gabe Newell

It may well have been, too, that the smiling moderation with which she faced and answered these blasphemies, that this tender and hypocritical rebuke appeared to her frank and generous nature as a particularly shameful and seductive form of that criminal attitude towards life which she was endeavouring to adopt. But she could not resist the attraction of being treated with affection by a woman who had just shewn herself so implacable towards the defenceless dead; she sprang on to the knees of her friend and held out a chaste brow to be kissed; ... — Marcel Proust

And, like the great damned souls, I shall always feel that thinking is worth more than living. — Fernando Pessoa

And there's a darker side to Peckham, too, once you get in deep: a side I like a lot more, because I identify with the past and prefer even worm-eaten wood to wipe-clean plastic. — Mike Carey

If you're having a bad day already and everybody is just asking you petty questions, it drives people to the edge, or something really small will have a really large effect. — Jess Weixler

Using your imagination means that you are using your most powerful tool of creation, manifestation and modification — Dorothy Holder

I was never much of a reader when I was a boy. Books bored me. I liked action. But I spent a lot of time thinking about things. I'd imagine all kinds of situations and how I would handle them. — Ray Kroc

When one makes enemies one knows that one's dangerous where it's necessary to be dangerous. — Ayn Rand

I always loved bulbs, and I use light a lot in my shows. In my office in Paris, I have 300 bulbs. — Alexandre De Betak

I see science and mysticism as two complementary manifestations of the human mind; as its rational and intuitive faculties.
Capra — Katherine Ramsland

And that was all the part of it - the way you were obliged to live. You stifled a groan, you lied about your love, you deceived your legal wife, and all in the name of honour. That was the damned paradox of it - in order to behave well, you have to behave badly. — Julian Barnes

I'm interested in creating a space through color contrasts, rather than by simple shadows of light and dark. — August Macke

I am bold to Say that neither you nor I, will live to See the Course which 'the Wonders of the Times' will take. Many Years, and perhaps Centuries must pass, before the current will acquire a Settled direction... yet Platonic, Pythagoric, Hindoo, and cabalistic Christianity, which is Catholic Christianity, and which has prevailed for 1,500 years, has received a mortal wound, of which the monster must finally die. Yet so strong is his constitution, that he may endure for centuries before he expires.

{Letter to Thomas Jefferson, July 16 1814} — John Adams