Gallimaufry Gallery Quotes & Sayings

To embrace the contingency of one's life is to embrace one's fate as an ephemeral but sentient being. As Nietzsche claimed, one can come to love that fate. But to do so one must first embrace it, though one instinctively recoils at such a prospect. — Stephen Batchelor

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow. — Benjamin Franklin

People can live up to high standards, but they can't live up to perfection. — Temple Grandin

I find it quite useful to think of a free-market economy - or partly free market economy - as sort of the equivalent of an ecosystem. Just as animals flourish in niches, people who specialize in some narrow niche can do very well. — Charlie Munger

Fashion needs incredible women, alive, stimulating, with style like Diana Vreeland. She is the most. The way she talks expresses all her values. — Gianni Versace

I am often accused of being childish. I prefer to interpret that as child-like. I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things. I tend to exaggerate and fantasize and embellish. I still listen to instinctual urges. I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind. I never water my garden without soaking myself. It has been after such times of joy that I have achieved my greatest creativity and produced my best work. — Leo Buscaglia

I don't do Twitter because I don't want to talk about myself more than I already have to. — Kit Harington

It's not the tales of Stephen King that I've read,
I need protection from the things in my head ... — Jimmy Buffett

There are definitely Dark Forces out there that none of us fully understand. People fear what they don't understand, and lash out against it — Marilyn Manson

There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy. — Harry Anderson

A device that sits somewhere between the categories of "possible general method" and "for emergency use only / you're going to die method" is the Reverso. — David Coley

I'm still amazed at how my mother emerged from her lonely early life as such an affectionate and levelheaded woman. — Hillary Clinton

Most emotional and physical symptoms of stress and depression are not typically caused by the circumstances themselves, but instead by how our minds perceive what is going on and how our hearts hold up under the pressure. — Tracie Miles

Bigger than you or me. Discussions are healthy. Ignorance is not. — Amandla Stenberg

When you're at war, you think about a better life; when you're at peace you think about a more comfortable one. — Thornton Wilder