Gayland Clark Quotes & Sayings

Failure is not the final fall. The will to rise when you fall is fortitude to success. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I got married the second time in the way that, when a murder is committed, crackpots turn up at the police station to confess the crime. — Delmore Schwartz

I show people how to build their own immortality device. — Alex Chiu

I never had a trial I wanted to have, but I never had trial I wasn't glad I had. — Jack Hyles

Jim Stavridis is the former NATO commander who is sometimes on people's lists, also very plausible, self-possessed, someone with sobriety. — David Brooks

Make peace, you fools! — Gerd Von Rundstedt

She's commanding and loyal, doesn't suffer fools well or make small talk, demands loyalty, and is extremely intelligent. — Mimi Wolverton

In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75. — Irwin Shaw

Secrets, I've discovered, have a way of working free of their keepers. — Steve Luxenberg

The anxiety arising from the perpetual activity of the death instinct, though never eliminated, is counteracted and kept at bay by the power of the life instinct. — Melanie Klein

A man of forty-five can consider himself still young till the moment comes when he realises that he has children old enough to fall in love. — Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa

Thinking you knew something was a sure way to blind yourself. It was not growing up that slowly applied brakes to learning (Mentats were taught) but an accumulation of "things I know." New — Frank Herbert

Among so many conflicting ideas and so many different perspectives, the honest man is confused and distressed and the skeptic becomes wicked ... Since one must take sides, one might as well choose the side that is victorious, the side which devastates, loots, and burns. Considering the alternative, it is better to eat than to be eaten. — Napoleon Bonaparte

You have to believe in the long term plan you have but you need the short term goals to motivate and inspire you. — Roger Federer

What you're willing to give tells you who you are. Not what you are willing to bargain for, or willing to be paid for - but what it is you are willing to give. — Garry Fitchett