Geertzs Quotes & Sayings

Stop calling me son, you piece of shit. I'm the son of a man who worked himself to the bone, day in and day out for the piddly salary you paid him. He went deep into the dark earth every day for his family, for pride, because he'd do anything for those he loved. That's the blood I have coursing through my veins. I am not your son. I'm Daniel Barrett's son. — Mia Sheridan

If achieving success were easy, more people would do it. — Guy Kawasaki

Madison understood that if you want to protect rights from government abuse, you would be wise not to give government the power in the first place that can be used to abuse rights. That is a lesson we have forgotten. As we have asked government to do more and more for us, we have forgotten that a government big enough to give us everything we want will be powerful enough to take everything we have. — Roger Pilon

Hen I say that "he's a truly nasty man," I mean he has so thoroughly renounced everything good that he might have inside him that he's already like a corpse even though he's still alive. Because truly nasty people hate everyone, to be sure, but most of all themselves. Can't you tell when a person hates himself? He becomes a living cadaver, it numbs all his negative emotions but also all the good ones so he won't feel nauseated by who he is. — Muriel Barbery

Those who work the hardest are the last to surrender. — Rick Pitino

The study of Buddhism is essentially the study of modification, how we modify the state of mind we're in, how we modify the realm we're in. — Frederick Lenz

I love animals and I love to see movies with animals that are done respectfully, you know? — Kristin Davis

Conflicts stay in your mind with your permission.You allow them to. — Hina Hashmi

Jesus Christ is the beginning, the middle, and the end of all. In the Gospels he walks in human form upon the earth, and accomplishes the work of redemption. — Philip Schaff

Hearth's eyes rimmed with green water. He signed to us, and this time I think he actually meant I love you and not the giantesses are drunk. — Rick Riordan

Now called for something drastically un-running away. Now called for
what? Suddenly I had it. Now called for being a librarian! (
Sally Jay Gorce) — Elaine Dundy