Gellis Claims Quotes & Sayings

The right to religious freedom has its foundation, not in the church or society or the state, but in the very dignity of the human person. — John Courtney Murray

...[M]en are put in a sort of guard-post, from which one must not release one's self or run away... — Socrates

With me, a story usually begins with a single idea or mental picture. The writing of the story is simply a matter of working up to that moment, to explain why it happened or what caused it to follow. — William Faulkner

The first loves of a man's youth run through all the currents of his life. — Charles S. Faddis

The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself. — Henry James

What people want to know is, OK, what's after modeling? It's not just OK anymore to model until you're 25 and then stop and be a housewife. — Gigi Hadid

My greatest success story has been my family. — Alex Spanos

Animal agriculture is now dominated by the factory farm- 99.9% of chickens raised for meat, 97% of laying hens, 99% of turkeys, 95% of pigs, and 78% of cattle. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Mark Spitz backed away from the fucking corn. — Colson Whitehead

Concision in art is a necessity and an elegance. The verbose painter bores: who will get rid of all these trimmings? — Edouard Manet

JANE AUSTEN was born in 1775 in the village of Steventon, Hampshire, the daughter of an Anglican clergyman. The — Jane Austen

Anything can be art: painting stairs, raising a child, or organising a trip to the end of the world. It's the way you live that makes you either an artist, or an art connoisseur, or an unsatisfied critic. — Mykyta Isagulov

When we feel a strong desire to thrust our advice upon others, it is usually because we suspect their weakness; but we ought rather to suspect our own. — Charles Caleb Colton

But everyone knows someone who has died, I said.
Why is it so hard to think about dying?
'Because,' Morrie continued, 'most of us walk around as if we're sleepwalking. We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do.'
And facing death changes all that?
'Oh, yes. You strip away all that stuff and you focus on the essentials. When you realize you are going to die, you see everything much differently.'
He sighed. 'Learn how to die, and you learn how to live. — Mitch Albom

We've got the NSA getting logs of every call you make. The IRS is weaponized like Richard Nixon could only have dreamed of. — Louie Gohmert