Gathuthi Quotes & Sayings

I tried to break her before. Now, I just wanted her as she was. I wanted every last beautiful flaw. I wanted the witty one-liners and the coldness that only I knew how to warm. I wanted the fight and the friction and the make-up sex. I wanted her to wake up in my bed every morning. I wanted her shitty cooking and her beautiful, complex mind. — Tarryn Fisher

We ought not to be over-anxious to encourage innovation in cases of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one; it is established, and it is understood. — Charles Caleb Colton

Only to those who have been in prison does freedom have such great meaning. — Corrie Ten Boom

I was fortunate enough to win a Super Bowl before retiring, and in fact I retired immediately after winning the Super Bowl. I went out on top, and intend to come out of the Guinness Pro Challenge on top, too. — Jerome Bettis

The same uneven application of values applies in the weird worlds of academia and the think tanks. Like the media, they choose to close off their minds the moment that the question of Islam comes along. Most bizarre is that you can get away with saying anything, absolutely anything, so long as it is flattering of Islam. It doesn't matter how soppy, how sentimental, how completely unacademic it is: so long as it's about Islam, different standards apply. — Douglas Murray

A people contending for life and liberty are seldom disposed to look with a favorable eye upon either men or measures whose passions, interests or consequences will clash with those inestimable objects. — George Washington

You have to take pains in a memoir not to hang on the reader's arm, like a drunk, and say, 'And then I did this and it was so interesting. — Annie Dillard

The battle line between good and evil runs through the heart of every man. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

If you read, you will have great wisdom for great life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Blue remained secretly hopeful that, somewhere out there in the world, there were other odd people like her. — Maggie Stiefvater

As I'm getting older, I'm moving away from calculations and measurement. I'm trying to be more open to vulnerability and mistakes. — Micah Lexier