Gemezer Quotes & Sayings

Essentially, we humans live well enough and long enough, and are smart enough, to generate all sorts of stressful events purely in our heads. — Robert M. Sapolsky

Wait until you meet my family. At Thanksgiving, we kill everything we can find, put it into a pot, and call it 'holiday gumbo'. — Molly Harper

though we can educate the younger generation, we can even command them, we cannot control their lives, much as we think we'd do a better job of it. — Sherwood Smith

There are no events so disastrous that adroit men do not draw some advantage from them, nor any so fortunate that the imprudent cannot turn to their own prejudice. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

No one can see me, no one knows me;
All men are deaf, no ears disclose me — Taras Shevchenko

According to the Bible, every man has a past, present, and future — Sunday Adelaja

In his play depicting the Salem Witch Trials, the author illustrates profound psychological bullying. The ringleader of young girls suspected of unsavory conduct, frightens her friends into silence by warning: Now, look you; All of you. We danced. And Tituba conjured Ruth Putnam's dead sisters, and that was all ... Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night, and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. — Arthur Miller

What is good for my country is good for my party, Should my party abandon this principle, the American people will abandon us. — John McCain

But also I find the sea too vast. It frightens me a little, though I am not sure why. It is not really the fear of drowning in it. I think it is more that the sea is a reminder of how little control we have over our lives no matter how carefully we try to plan and order them. Everything changes in ways we least expect, and everything is frighteningly vast. We are so small.'
'The fast can actually be comforting at times,' he said. 'When we lash out at ourselves for having lost control ,we are reminded that we never can be in control, that all life asks of us is to do our best to cope with what is handed to us. It is easier said than done, of course. Indeed, it is often impossible to do. But I always find a stroll on the beach reassuring. — Mary Balogh

In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person. — George Bancroft

These were specific enablements given to certain believers for the purpose of authenticating or confirming God's Word when it was proclaimed in the early church before the Scriptures were written. The temporary sign gifts included prophecy (revelatory prophecy7), miracles, healings, tongues, and interpretation of tongues. The sign gifts had a unique purpose: to give the apostles credentials, that is, to let the people know that these men all spoke the truth of God. Once the Word of God was inscripturated, the sign gifts were no longer needed and they ceased — John F. MacArthur

I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry. — Robert Benchley

The transcendent experience is common to every culture in the world. — Edgar Mitchell