Gehling Auctioneers Quotes & Sayings

As recently as the grunge era, there remained a bohemian cachet in casually mentioning that you didn't own a TV. But nobody thinks like that anymore. Today, claiming you don't own a TV simply means you're poor (or maybe depressed). In one ten-year span, high-end television usurped the cultural positions of film, rock, and literary fiction. — Chuck Klosterman

May we all be doomed to a happy life. — Alethea Kontis

When you have established that one alternative is good and the other is evil, there is no justification for the choice of a mixture. There is no justification ever for choosing any part of what you know to be evil. — Ayn Rand

Man no longer lives in the beginning
he has lost the beginning. Now he finds he is in the middle, knowing neither the end nor the beginning, and yet knowing that he is in the middle, coming from the beginning and going towards the end. He sees that his life is determined by these two facets, of which he knows only that he does not know them — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It's like I woke up in another country and all the maps in my head have only made me more lost. — Laurel Garver

To forgive an oppressor is oppression upon the oppressed. — Umar

A leader's most powerful ally is his or her own example. — John Wooden

is not cool, of course. It is brutal and inhuman and tragic on multiple levels. It's also sometimes necessary. — Salvatore A. Giunta

Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women. — Natalie Portman

When we are finished the little boy walks over to me and looks up at my chest. Then he reaches up and cups my breast in his hand. The mother comes over and does the same thing with my other breast. Yes I am the same I nod. Look. I pull up my shirt and unhook my bra. My breasts pop out and they both smile.

I think about the Zapotec village in Mexico where I was not accepted until I was wearing their clothes and the Balinese ceremonies I would never have attended in anything but a kebaya and a sarong. I smile when I realize that if I were to live here I would walk around topless. If I weren't with three westerners I would do it right now. — Rita Golden Gelman