Gagardener Quotes & Sayings

The only thing about a man that is a man ... is his mind. Everything else you can find in a pig or a horse. — Archibald MacLeish

Thwarted, or starved, in the important objects proper to young capacities, the boys and young men naturally find or invent deviant objects for themselves ... Their choices and inventions are rarely charming, usually stupid, and often disastrous; we cannot expect average kids to deviate with genius. But on the other hand, the young men who conform to the dominant society become for the most part apathetic, disappointed, cynical and wasted. — Paul Goodman

We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery. — Todd Gitlin

Being saved' doesn't just mean, as it does for many today, 'going to heaven when they die'. It means 'knowing God's rescuing power, the power revealed in Jesus, which anticipates, in the present, God's final great act of deliverance'. — N. T. Wright

Usually when I see myself in a film or on television, there's about a six-month period where I can't look at it because all I'll see are the mistakes. I'm just appalled by the person that I see. — Tim Daly

The older i got, the taller i got, the more that hole within me stretched until it was gaping throughout my adult life, like a wide eyed jaw-dropping fish on ice ... — Cecelia Ahern

Ah, but in time the heat of noontide passes, and to it there succeed nightfall and dusk, with a return to the quiet fold where for the weary an the heavy-laden there waits sleep, sweet sleep. — Ivan Turgenev

The main dysfunctions of agile team are absence of trust, inattention to results, lack of commitment, — Thiyagarajan Perumal

The world is a clock winding down.
I hear it in the wind's icy fingers scratching against the window. I smell it in the mildewed carpeting and the rotting wallpaper of the old hotel. And I feel it in Teacup's chest as she sleeps. The hammering of her heart, the rhythm of her breath, warm in the freezing air, the clock winding down. — Rick Yancey

To continue living, we have to die. That's the story of humanity - generation after generation - that we are going to die. There's nothing dramatic about death except that one loses one's life. — Jose Saramago

Dogma in power does have a unique chilling ingredient not exhibited by power, however ghastly, wielded for its own traditional sake. — Christopher Hitchens