Gehrt Roberts Quotes & Sayings

It's a fact the whole world knows,
That Pobbles are happier without their toes. — Edward Lear

I wanted her to have the full, long life that every parent promises his or her child by the simple act of bringing that child into the world. — Cristina Henriquez

She was so intelligent that she could think herself into beauty. Intelligence ... they don't talk about it much, the poets, but when a woman is intelligent and passionate and good ... — Eva Ibbotson

If God had looked into our minds he would not have been able to see there whom we were speaking of. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

I want our young Latinos and Latinas to write their hearts out and express their hearts out and let us all listen to each other. — Juan Felipe Herrera

Power will always attract the greedy and the weak. — Cassandra Clare

The concept of emotional or spiritual survival has an honorable history, but it does invite self-indulgence. In my own case, the worst I ever survived was severe personal and political confusion, the temptation to various sorts of craziness and a couple of bad acid trips. It felt pretty horrendous at the time, and some of it was even dangerous, but Auschwitz it wasn't. — Ellen Willis

Anything you can imagine you can make real. — Jules Verne

Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life. — Karin Slaughter

I've realized I can't waste any moment being unhappy. — Marat Safin

You should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that. — Jeannette Walls

I love vengeance like normal people love sunsets and long walks on the beach. I eat vengeance with a spoon like it's honey. In fact, I may not even be a real person, but just a vow of vengeance made flesh. — Laini Taylor

One of life's minor satisfactions is forgetting. — Joyce Carol Oates

But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie elsewhere. — Garrett Hardin

The authors pointed out that nearly all research in psychology is conducted on a very small subset of the human population: people from cultures that are Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (forming the acronym WEIRD). They then reviewed dozens of studies showing that WEIRD people are statistical outliers; they are the least typical, least representative people you could study if you want to make generalizations about human nature. Even within the West, Americans are more extreme outliers than Europeans, and within the United States, the educated upper middle class (like my Penn sample) is the most unusual of all. — Jonathan Haidt