Garman Quotes & Sayings

Believe me, when my 'personal endowments' are being discussed, I always pay attention." ~ Cam Rohan — Lisa Kleypas

Ever since I was in Amherst College I have remembered how Garman told his class in philosophy that if they would go along with events and have the courage and industry to hold to the main stream, without being washed ashore by the immaterial cross currents, they would someday be men of power. He meant that we should try to guide ourselves by general principles and not get lost in particulars. That may sound like mysticism, but it is only the mysticism that envelopes every great truth. One of the greatest mysteries in the world is the success that lies in conscientious work. — Calvin Coolidge

There is no irritant as painful as an ace up your sleeve that you can never use; it's the kind of thing that causes oysters to produce pearls. — Sheila Ballantyne

What you believe your future holds for you impacts your attitude, decisions and success. — Maddy Malhotra

When you're shooting that fast end to end, you wake up in a hotel and you don't know where you are. You're dreaming of Singapore, you wake up in Hong Kong. Or you just lose track. [It's] one of the reasons I'm staying in hotels that I know I've stayed in before, and they don't look like other hotels. — Anthony Bourdain

When I got to 'Saturday Night Live,' it was a lot like going from pre-school to Harvard, and it took a long time to figure stuff out. — Bill Hader

God knows the secret plan of the things he will do for the world, using my hand. — Toyohiko Kagawa

Everything changed the moment I found you. I changed. — Siobhan Davis

From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation. — Jesse Jackson

The roots of Theodism are hard to trace. Leave it to say, it has roots in both Wicca and Germanic Heathenry. Garman began his path towards Theodish Belief as a Wiccan, studying in the Gardnerian tradition. — Swain Wodening

We are what ballads are written of, what bards sing of. We are epic, you and I. — Samantha Garman

I can't read a note. I have lots of discipline, but I can't sit still at any instrument. — Suzanne Farrell

Comfort is a powerful sedative. — Samantha Garman

The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither. We must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. And let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our knowledge. Let us be silent, content in our little corner, meek and gentle like them. That is the wisdom of life. — W. Somerset Maugham

The lack of resources is no longer an excuse not to act. The idea that action should only be taken after all the answers and the resources have been found is a sure recipe for paralysis. The planning of a city is a process that allows for corrections; it is supremely arrogant to believe that planning can be done only after every possible variable has been controlled. — Jaime Lerner