Gekas Old Quotes & Sayings

This political climate today reminds me of what my father must have gone through in 1942, when the winds of war and fires of hate were surrounding him. We have a candidate for the presidency of the United States, Donald Trump, using the same rhetoric that my father must have heard from elected officials. — George Takei

I learn from my mistakes, and falling for you was by far the worst mistake I've ever made. — Daniele Lanzarotta

I don't want to just fall back on the fact that I was on the cover of 'GQ' for being an actor. — Ansel Elgort

Pass not beneath, O Caravan, or pass not singing. Have you heard
That silence where the birds are dead yet something pipeth like a bird? — James Elroy Flecker

I wouldn't want to belong to a club that would have me as a member — Groucho Marx

You must trust in your inner being of light, the angel you already are. — Sean Patrick Brennan

Wet catkins fur the twigs of a willow. — David Mitchell

Sometimes I wonder if man was really meant to discover magic," Fogg said expansively. "It doesn't really make sense. It's a little too perfect, don't you think? If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so. Words and thoughts don't change anything. Language and reality are kept strictly apart - reality is tough, unyielding stuff, and it doesn't care what you think or feel or say about it. Or it shouldn't. You deal with it, and you get on with your life. "Little children don't know that. Magical thinking: that's what Freud called it. Once we learn otherwise we cease to be children. The separation of word and thing is the essential fact on which our adult lives are founded. — Lev Grossman

Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure. — A.E. Housman

Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war. — Joseph A. Schumpeter

It's a rare thing to be with another person and not feel an obligation to fill every second with talk. — Jessica Park