Garate And Associates Quotes & Sayings

Everything - including love, hate, and suffering - needs food to continue. If suffering continues, it's because we keep feeding our suffering. — Thich Nhat Hanh

The first stage in understanding the Scriptures is to learn what a writer intended to say, what he meant for the people of his day. — Francis John McConnell

Marina Warner's Monuments and Maidens explains how it comes about that individual men's names and faces are enshrined in monuments, supported by identical, anonymous (and "beautiful") stone women. — Naomi Wolf

When one man of popularity can let the world know the problem, he might lose a few dollars himself. He might lose his life. But he's helping millions. — Muhammad Ali

Wes Clark is a man of whom you can ask a question, and he will look you directly in the eye, and give you the most truthful and complete answer you can imagine. You will know the absolute truth of the statement as well as the thought process behind the answer. You will have no doubt as to the intellect of the speaker and meaning of the answer to this question ... So you can see, as a politician, he has a lot to learn. — Mario Cuomo

You cannot merely expect culture to be a natural occurrence; it has to be taught and made a part of your everyday routine. — Mike Krzyzewski

I was just a kid then. But I won't forget. Nor will others. There's lots of people with reason to hate the Church. — Terry Pratchett

Plus I am being hounded by all the fabulous new drummers, Bill Stewart at the head of the pack. — Bill Bruford

You're such a left-brain AND a kleptomaniac. Quit taking things literally and there's hope for you yet! — Bryant A. Loney

I don't know, monogamy is a weird thing for me. — Sienna Miller

At bottom, you see, we are not Homo sapiens as all. Our core is madness. The prime directive is murder. What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle. And that is what the Pulse exposed five days ago. — Stephen King

If change threatens you, you become conservative in self-defense. If it thrills you, you become liberal in self-liberation. He says the Threateneds are frequently more successful in the short run, because they always fight dirty. But in the long run, they always lose, because Thrilled people learn and thus accomplish more. — Robert A. Heinlein

So, when I write a piece of fiction I select my characters and settings and so on because they have a bearing, at least to me, on the old unanswerable philosophical questions. And as I spin out the action, I'm always very concerned with springing discoveries
actual philosophical discoveries. But at the same time I'm concerned
and finally more concerned
with what the discoveries do to the character who makes them, and to the people around him. It's that that makes me not really a philosopher, but a novelist. — John Gardner

This was the truth at the core of my existence: this yawning emptiness, scantily clad in rage. It had been there all along. — Hillary Jordan

Art is life playing to other rhythms."
"The Elegance of the Hedgehog — Muriel Barbery