Garrels Norderney Quotes & Sayings

As we become civilized we are governed less by persons and more by principles ... The best of all leaders is the man who teaches people to lead themselves. — Robert Green Ingersoll

The truth is that the want of common education with us is not from our poverty, but from the want of an orderly system. More money is now paid for the education of a part than would be paid for that of the whole if systematically arranged. — Thomas Jefferson

I've tried, at every step in life, to find a lesson. And accepting criticism with the same grace that you do the applause is something every young athlete needs to learn ... I think it served me well to learn how to handle everything that came with the game's ups and downs. Some people call it growing another layer of skin. I just call it growing up. — Dan Marino

I think one of the reasons to be here on earth is to finally be who we are, at all times - to know and be predictable to ourselves. — Louise Erdrich

Are women really wonderful things? Maybe they are. Yes, women are wonderful things, but when all is said and done, they aren't really things — Mo Yan

It's been my experience that most writers don't talk about their craft
they just do it — Alfred Lansing

...one lives convinced his friends are there, that contact does exist, that agreements or disagreements are profound and lasting. How we all hate each other, without being aware that endearment is the current form of that hatred, and how the reason behind profound hatred is this excentration, the unbridgeable space between me and you, between this and that. All endearment is an ontological clawing, yes, an attempt to seize the unseizable... — Julio Cortazar

But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in. — D.H. Lawrence

Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it. — Gustave Flaubert

I want to be the apostle of self destruction. I want my book to affect man's reason, his emotions, his nerves, his whole animal nature. I should like my book to make people turn pale with horror as they read it, to affect them like a drug, like a terrifying dream, to drive them mad, to make them curse and hate me but still to read me and ... to kill themselves. — Leonid Andreyev

If you search for poverty, you'll find it, often in the family. Why? Because the family makes this great investment, from which we all benefit, but for which no-one helps. We have to point the spotlight on the family, and make political choices that sustain the family. — Rocco Buttiglione