Gaoussou Guido Quotes & Sayings

And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit. Conduct may be founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes, but after a certain point I don't care what it's founded on. When I came back from the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart. Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction - Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn. — F Scott Fitzgerald

In the heroic effort of the handcart pioneers, we learn a great truth. All must pass through a refiner's fire, and the insignificant and unimportant in our lives can melt away like dross and make our faith bright, intact, and strong. There seems to be a full measure of anguish, sorrow, and often heartbreak for everyone, including those who earnestly seek to do right and be faithful. Yet this is part of the purging to become acquainted with God. — James E. Faust

Only a magician can fix a head on a body, but any fool can lop it off. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Shows don't reunite because television doesn't work that way. There's no profit model and people go off to do other work. — Mitchell Hurwitz

It's a very bad idea for scientific conclusions to be accepted because they fit with the political values of a group of researchers. — Philip Kitcher

You play your cards so close to your chest," said Shadow, "that I'm not even sure they're really cards at all. — Neil Gaiman

The myth is a surviving fragment of the psychic life of the infancy of the race whilst the dream is the myth of the individual. — Karl Abraham

To me, the [British] Open is the tournament I would come to if I had to leave a month before and swim over. — Lee Trevino

Ancient tradition always depicts a true Chinese musician as blind. Esoterically, this implies that his gift of the divine art is so completely guided by, and dedicated to, hosts of the celestial guardians, that both his sight and consciousness are focused above and beyond the objective world. — Corinne Heline

My love affair with nature is so deep that I am not satisfied with being a mere onlooker, or nature tourist. I crave a more real and meaningful relationship. The spicy teas and tasty delicacies I prepare from wild ingredients are the bread and wine in which I have communion and fellowship with nature, and with the Author of that nature. — Euell Gibbons