Gecelerim Quotes & Sayings

Marriage must perforce fight against the all-devouring monster of habit. — Honore De Balzac

How can stars shine facing your brightness if your beauty overwhelms them? — Cyci Cade

The early Sumerian pictograph for god was an asterisk, the symbol of the stars. The early Aztec word for god was Teotl, and its glyph was a representation of the Sun. The heavens were called Teoatl, the godsea, the cosmic ocean. — Carl Sagan

Can the water in the valleys ever stop and rest?
When the water finally reaches the sea, it becomes great waves. — Francis Harold Cook

Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means. — D.H. Lawrence

Now you know well that the most deadly foes of the Catholic religion have always waged a fierce war, but without success, against this Chair [of St. Peter]; they are by no means ignorant of the fact that religion itself can never totter and fall while this Chair remains intact, the Chair which rests on the rock which the proud gates of hell cannot overthrow and in which there is the whole and perfect solidity of the Christian religion. — Pope Pius IX

Bologna sandwiches on white bread with one slice of American cheese and doused with mustard will stop any thought of additional food for a good six hours, and what is a meal for if not that? — Ed Baldwin

Children develop character by what they see, by what they hear, and by what they are repeatedly led to do. — James Stenson

The Public is merely a multiplied 'me.' — Mark Twain

I don't want to be the strong one, but I don't want to be the weak one, either. — David Levithan

I would really like to play someone contemporary, as I've done lots of period pieces. I would love to play an American bimbo or a grimy Londoner. But I'm probably more suited in people's minds to playing a corseted victim. — Rachel Hurd-Wood

A good will is good not because of what it effects, or accomplishes, not because of its fitness to attain some intended end, but good just by its willing, i.e. in itself; and, considered by itself, it is to be esteemed beyond compare much higher than anything that could ever be brought about by it in favor of some inclinations, and indeed, if you will, the sum of all inclinations. Even if by some particular disfavor of fate, or by the scanty endowment of a stepmotherly nature, this will should entirely lack the capacity to carry through its purpose; if despite its greatest striving it should still accomplish nothing, and only the good will were to remain (not of course, as a mere wish, but as the summoning of all means that are within our control); then, like a jewel, it would still shine by itself, as something that has full worth in itself. — Immanuel Kant

I saw through the lies, deception and the greed of religion at a very young age. I had experiences that I couldn't — Rick Kueber

The army is the true nobility of our country. — Napoleon Bonaparte