Gedison Quotes & Sayings

Next to courage, willpower is the most important thing in politics. — Paul Johnson

Instead of admitting that happiness is an art of the indirect that is achieved or not through secondary goals, it is presented as if it were an immediately accessible objective, and recipes are provided. Whatever the method chosen, psychic, somatic, chemical, spiritual, or computer-based, the presupposition is everywhere the same: contentment is within your reach, all you have to do is undergo a "positive conditioning," an "ethical discipline" that will lead you to it. This amounts to an astonishing inversion of the will, which seeks to establish its protectorate over psychic states and feelings that are traditionally outside its jurisdiction. It wears itself our trying to change what does not depend on it (at the risk of not dealing with what can be changed). — Pascal Bruckner

If life is such a painful experience and we can't change that, why can't this person just be allowed to die? — Jo Nesbo

We have gone through everything as a nation - partition, dictatorship, and even anarchy. — Fatos Nano

But I've never felt for anyone, what I feel for you. And I've never felt from anyone, what I am feeling from you now. — S.C. Stephens