Gemeiner Quotes & Sayings

A person must claim the meaning behind his or her existence. How we live is our final testament to what we believed in and our journey through the corridor of time determines our decisive character. — Kilroy J. Oldster

I never felt in competition with anybody in war photography. You're lucky to get your ass in and out again. It's as simple as that. It's the easiest photography in the world to shoot somebody who's been shot up. It doesn't take a genius. That's easy. The only thing you need to know is your photography. Get in and if you're lucky get out. And get as close as you can get. — David Douglas Duncan

But they wanted the same things, and it wasn't a lot. Just someone who would be there for them, despite everything else, forever. Everyone wanted that, probably. — Lisa Henry

If inflation is the genie, then deflation is the ogre that must be fought decisively, — Christine Lagarde

Tolerance is an attribute of egoism. — Dada Bhagwan

Therefore, I feel convinced that any political picture can be changed to suit the needs of the powers that be. — Thor Heyerdahl

All I cared was that she had never lied. She was honest in a world just the opposite, and a cool oasis in my life. She was who she said she was, and everything Sophia, my mother, the pathologically manipulative liar, had never been. — Rob Thurman

Every place has unsolved crimes because people don't want to know. — Rita Mae Brown

I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to sing 'Maria' from West Side Story. When I hear her snoring, I hang up. — Adam Sandler

I pray thee let me and my fellow have a haire of the dog that bit us last night. — John Heywood

I know you've taken risks to do these things. Do Please be careful."
"Don't worry about me," he said. "You've got enough troubles on your own plate, my word. But we'll come out all right, so long as we just keep alive, that's all we got to do. Just keep alive another two years, till the war's over. — Nevil Shute

Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still. — Charles Churchill

Maybe the one dangerous thing about reading a library's worth of books was the way your imagination got pumped up like a bodybuilder on steroids. — Dean Koontz

When she comes to retrieve me [in the nursing home], after the tan-colored pudding with edible oil topping has sat for a while and been removed ... — Sara Gruen