Gedaleh Quotes & Sayings

It does people good to have to do things they don't like ... in moderation. — L.M. Montgomery

Yaroo!" I shouted, and I didn't give a beetle's bottom who heard me. "Ya-rooo! — Alan Bradley

I once used the word OBSOLETE in a headline, only to discover that 43 per cent of housewives had no idea what it meant. In another headline, I used the word INEFFABLE, only to discover that I didn't know what it meant myself. — David Ogilvy

One of the reasons I like Barthes more than other writers of that ilk is because he had a literary quality. — Jeffrey Eugenides

But Gedalah had something in mind. He sent four men to collect a dozen pumpkins, and he had them set in the pylons that supported the overhead power line that ran the train, one pumpkin to each pylon.
"What are they for?" Mendel asked.
"Nothing," Gedaleh said. "They're there to make the Germans wonder why they're there. We've wasted maybe two minutes; they're methodical, they'll waste a lot more. — Primo Levi

Psychological observations of the prisoners have shown that only the men who allowed their inner hold on their moral and spiritual selves to subside eventually fell victim to the camp's degenerating influences. — Viktor E. Frankl

I love this idea of trying to create that intellectual eroticism. That was what I was working toward all along. — Lily King

Life took the strongest root with a little bit of rain and a whole lot of shit for fertilizer. — Karen Marie Moning

Our torments also may in length of time
Become our Elements. — John Milton

Empowerment is constantly challenging oneself with something difficult that tests his power of nerve, knack, skill, aptitude, attitude and wisdom to do things diligently, delightfully but differently. — Anuj

I am certain in my heart that all that I am, I have received from God. — Saint Patrick

The truck went on its way in the night and Gedaleh shouted, laughing, If not this way, how? And if not now, when? — Primo Levi

See now, how men lay blame upon us gods for what is after all nothing but their own folly. — Homer

Prayer is not learned in a classroom but in the closet. — Edward McKendree Bounds