Gelata Primate Quotes & Sayings

Spilled blood and superstition are the basis of the world. Man is not the only creature who kills for bread, or love, or power, because animals in the jungle do that in various ways, but he is the only creature who kills because of faith. — Hassan Blasim

Another image comes to mind: Nietzsche leaving his hotel in Turin. Seeing a horse and a coachman beating it with a whip, Nietzsche went up to the horse and, before the coachman's very eyes, put his arms around the horse's neck and burst into tears.
That took place in 1889, when Nietzsche, too, had removed himself from the world of people. In other words, it was at the time when his mental illness had just erupted. But for that very reason I feel his gesture has broad implications: Nietzsche was trying to apologize to the horse of Descartes. His lunacy (that is, his final break with mankind) began at the very moment he burst into tears over the horse. — Milan Kundera

I wrote a novel called 'Blonde,' which is about Norma Jean Baker, who becomes Marilyn Monroe, which I called a fictitious biography. That uses the material as if it were myth - that Marilyn Monroe is like this mythical figure in our culture. — Joyce Carol Oates

Beautiful things should not be kept behind glass, they should be used. Just as beautiful women should live fully and not let herself turn into a hothouse flower, pampered and useless. — Lisa Cach

Yes," she says, her eyes bright with tears. "My dear child, you've done so well. — Veronica Roth

I believe in choosing the hardest book imaginable. I believe in reading up on what others have to say about this difficult book, and then making up my own mind. — Rick Moody

To remain ignorant of history is to remain forever a child — Marcus Tullius Cicero

God must have something to do with joy ... and with sadness. — Joan Baez

Nothing can be more cruel than that leniency which abandons others to their sin. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

If one were given a single window from which to look upon the changing Eastern world, it should face, I think, the road. — Freya Stark

We are hooked hearts thrown
into the sea that catch everything. — Krysten Hill

Like a detective keenly searching for clues, our daughters are solving the mystery of womanhood itself. — Melia Keeton-Digby

It scares me to see someone so together come unhinged. It makes me think none of us are in control. — Chelsea Pitcher

HR should be every company's killer app. What could possibly be more important than who gets hired? — Jack Welch