Gasshouse Quotes & Sayings

Feeling pain is still better than not feeling, isn't it? — Jonathan Safran Foer

We pray with sometimes unseemly insistence for specific things to happen. We give no thought to the myriad ways in which they might come to pass. — John Burgess

So this wonderful city
Has only dead ashes for me. — John Galsworthy

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. — Herbert Spencer

I think, like every working parent, I sometimes feel that there are not enough hours in the day. But overall, I'm very fortunate that my job has a lot of flexibility. I spend a lot of time with the kids, just around the house. — Reese Witherspoon

I was always impressed by how much my dad went out in the yard and played with me and my siblings when we were kids. I'm sure he was tired coming back from work, since he traveled a lot. But he always took time out of his day to go out in the yard. — Andrew Luck

I am not here to merely argue about the perplexities regarding theism or philosophy, but to be a light to the world and to reach out to those who long to be a part of that light. — Criss Jami

Iris GL (GL is short for "graphics library"). — Anonymous

The most important lesson of American history is the promise of the unexpected. None of our ancestors would have imagined settling way over here on this unknown continent. So we must continue to have society that is hospitable to the unexpected, which allows possibilities to develop beyond our own imaginings. — Daniel J. Boorstin

Strict punctuality is perhaps the cheapest virtue which can give force to an otherwise utterly insignificant character. — John Frederick Boyes

Critics of soccer contend that the game inherently culminates in death and destruction. They argue that the game gives life to tribal identities which should be disappearing in a world where a European Union and globalization are happily shredding such ancient sentiments. Another similar widely spread thesis that holds that the root cause of violence can be found in the pace of the game itself. Because goals come so irregularly, fans spend far too much time sublimating their emotions, anticipating but never releasing. When those emotions swell and become uncontainable, the fans erupt into dark, Dionysian fits of ecstatic violence. — Franklin Foer