Gektek Quotes & Sayings

We entertain God's Truth not as a guest but as master of the house. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

That which shrinks must first expand. — Laozi

You know, the only important thing is that there was a person for whom you were the most important being in the world. Everything else is inconsequential. — Mikhail Shishkin

Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared - this must some day become the highest maxim for every single commonwealth. — Friedrich Nietzsche

As a human being with notoriety and a big mouth, I've felt most threatened during the first Bush Administration. Whenever there's a Bush in the White House, many people die, and the rest of us are threatened. I just didn't think it would happen quite so quickly. The so-called USA Patriot Act, and the announcement of trying people in military tribunals if Bush or Rumsfeld's or Ashcroft's people think they somehow qualify as terrorists, basically, this is McCarthyism run amok. — Jello Biafra

Between every rational moment were a billion irrational ones. — Terry Pratchett

In the end, it's not what you do for your children but what you've taught them to do for themselves. — Ann Landers

John Lewis said, You have to be taught the way of peace, the way of love, the way of nonviolence. In the religious sense, in the moral sense, you can say that in the bosom of every human being, there is a spark of the divine. So you don't have a right as a human to abuse that spark of the divine in your fellow human being. From time to time, we would discuss that, if you have someone attacking you, beating you, spitting on you, you have to think of that person. Years ago that person was an innocent child, an innocent little baby. What happened? Did something go wrong? Did someone teach that person to hate, to abuse others? You try to appeal to the goodness of every human being and you don't give up. You never give up on anyone. — Krista Tippett

It is hard to be an individual in Japan. — Haruki Murakami

It doesn't matter what the technology is - no one will watch a Peter Greenaway film anyway. — Alan Parker

I was raised to believe that God speaks in the language of sacrifice," he told me, "You are expected to sacrifice because it is the measure of the depth of your belief ... — Neil Abramson

The family is very important. They make me feel good always because if I won, when I started to be famous, the relationship never changed with my friends and family. — Rafael Nadal