Gages Quotes & Sayings

Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations. — Niccolo Machiavelli

I don't like to risk my life, so I prepare sometimes for months or sometimes for years. But sometimes after a walk, I look what I have done, and I have a little bit of fear coming to me, just looking at pictures. — Philippe Petit

God gave me the strength to see, and breathe, and talk. — Leon Spinks

If the populace knew with what idiocy they were ruled, they would revolt. — Charlemagne

Apparently they didn't realize that people who buy thousands of rounds of ammo are likely to know how to use it. We — Elizabeth Moon

Unlike we are, unlike, O princely Heart!
Unlike our uses and our destinies ...
Thou, bethink thee, art
A guest for queens to social pageantries,
With gages from a hundred brighter eyes
Than tears even can make mine ...
What hast though to do
With looking from the lattice-lights at me,
A poor, tired, wandering singer ... — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Imitate the traits of your creator — Sunday Adelaja

I've produced my own films for twenty years now - it means I have to talk to less people. — Sydney Pollack

I'm driven. I have the opportunity to change people's lives. — Thomas Menino

The flower of # consciousness needs the mud out of which it grows. — Eckhart Tolle

Liberalism will beat totalitarianism by killing it softly, not by mimicking it. — Maajid Nawaz

But there is always one last chance - right? — R.L. Stine

Run as much miles as I did and you'll learn the secret of running, but I can't guarantee you'll win in Olympics. — Lasse Viren

Stay close. Nut to butt, sir. Don't be shy. — Pierce Brown

Great drama, drama that may reach the alchemical level, must have dimension and its relevance will take care of itself. Writing about AIDS rather than the cocktail set, or possibly the fairy kingdom, will not guarantee importance ... The old comment that all periods of time are at an equal distance from eternity says much, and pondering on it will lead to alchemical theatre while relevance becomes old hat. — Robertson Davies