Gaspards Auto Quotes & Sayings

Sufism is transmitted by means of the human exemplar, the teacher. — Idries Shah

[Herbert] Hoover, had he been challenged with the overpowering implausibility of his notion that economic life is a race that is won by the ablest runner, would have had a ready answer from his own biography: had he not started in life as a poor orphan and worked in the mines for a pittance, and had he not become first a millionaire and then President of the United States? There are times when nothing is more misleading than personal experience, and the man whose experience has embraced only success is likely to be a forlorn and alien figure when his whole world begins to fail. — Richard Hofstadter

Youth looks good in anything; unpleasant details lose themselves against the unabating vigour of youth ... — Franz Kafka

The forties and fifties were years of high poet-incense; the language-flowers were thickly sweet. Those flowers whined and begged white folks to pick them, to find them lovable. Then the '60s: Independent fire! — Gwendolyn Brooks

This is how tyrants fall. By destroying their people, they destroy themselves. — Brent Weeks

I think a major cause of present Asian economic difficulties that mainly come from, you know, lack of market economy. — Kim Dae-jung

When I was learned, knowledge was everything. Now that I'm a learner, kindness is everything. — Leonard Sweet

When time is running out and the score is close, most players are thinking, I don't want to be the one to lose the game, but I'm thinking, What do I have to do to win? — Jerry West

I believe in love the verb, not the noun. — Greg Behrendt

People may say that what I do is very clever, but it's not really at all. It's not Swift. — Rory Bremner

I constantly watch 'The Simpsons' and an English cartoon called 'The Raccoons' and 'Gummi Bears.' I was obsessed with ninja films, and the 'Teenage Mutant Nina Turtles,' I used to love that as well. — Matt Smith

Our thinking is a pious reception. — Ralph Waldo Emerson