Gartzke Quotes & Sayings

William wondered why he always disliked people who said 'no offense meant.' Maybe it was because they found it easier to to say 'no offense meant' than actually to refrain from giving offense. — Terry Pratchett

you told me, "Beihai, you've got a long way to go. I say that because I can still easily understand you, and being understandable to me means that your mind is still too simple, not subtle enough. On the day I can no longer read you or figure you out, but you can easily understand me, that's when you'll finally have grown up." And then I grew up like you said, and you could no longer so easily understand your son. — Liu Cixin

The wise speak only of what they know — J.R.R. Tolkien

It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself — John Green

Accept everything which comes in your life. — Santosh Kalwar

If something is built to show, it's build to grow. — Jonah Berger

Of course, he had no control whether the news he brought was good or bad. — Melanie Furlong-Riesgo

The future has to be lived before it can be written about. — Jawaharlal Nehru

...[T]he inherent polysemous character of language and the necessity of interpreting language according to one's personal understandings eliminate the possibility of infusing one's sentiments directly into the mind of another. At the same time, these characteristics of language and its interpretations suggest that no text ought ever to be thought complete. We can never manage to complete our ideas, to work out their full implications, to recognize their inadequacies, or to say what 'we really meant.' Further, since anything we say can be challenged, as Graff (1992b) points out, we can never manage to meet all the possible challenges. Such an idea may seem to be an unbearable problem. But we have always lived with these conditions. We have simply ignored them. — George Hillocks

I think you have to look at these cold cases. If they're done properly, if the homicides are done properly, and everything's documented properly, you have a lot of concrete statements from those people that they would be able to look at them and refresh their memory. — Mark Fuhrman

Constituted a critical lapse in judgement and a personal failure on my part for which I am solely responsable — William J. Clinton