Gaitspots Quotes & Sayings

Diplomats were invented simply to waste time. — David Lloyd George

Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes. — Ezra Pound

One of the things we urge Y-Combinator companies to do is to have profitability in grasp. If you need to get profitable before your A round of money, you ought to be able to do that. — Sam Altman

Christ never asks us to give up merely for the sake of giving up, but always in order to win something better. — Henry Van Dyke

The cruelties of property and privilege are always more ferocious than the revenges of poverty and oppression. For the one aims at perpetuating resented injustice, the other is merely a momentary passion soon appeased. — C.L.R. James

Concepts create idols; only wonder grasps anything. — Gregory Of Nyssa

Take the road to contradiction, it'll lead you, I promise, to the palace of wisdom. — Frank Lentricchia

Facebook has conquered much of the world. — Rebecca MacKinnon

In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it. — Robert Fripp

There was a young man in Rome that was very like Augustus Caesar; Augustus took knowledge of it and sent for the man, and asked him "Was your mother never at Rome?" He answered "No Sir; but my father was." — Francis Bacon

When did wishing someone a Merry Christmas become politically incorrect? — Suzanne Woods Fisher

I think a lot of the things in my life that I become most passionate about, and most excited about, are all from comics. — Gene Luen Yang

Perhaps the most tragic thing about mankind is that we are all dreaming about some magical garden over the horizon, instead of enjoying the roses that are right outside today. — Andrew Carnegie

Whenever we are ill, we need to search our hearts to see what we need to forgive. — Louise Hay

While it is a truism to observe that if humans were angels, law would be unnecessary, we could equally turn the truism around, and note that if humans were devils, law would be pointless. In this sense, the law-making project always presupposes the improvability, if not the perfectibility, of humankind. Whether our view of human nature tends toward Hobbesian grimness or Rousseauian equanimity, we tend to think of law as critical to reducing brutality and violence. — Rosa Brooks