Gen Macgregor Quotes & Sayings

As a young girl I think I wanted to be a horse woman. I loved horses. — Karen Hughes

So now you must choose ... Are you a child who has not yet become world-weary? Or are you a philosopher who will vow never to become so? To children, the world and everything in it is new, something that gives rise to astonishment. It is not like that for adults. Most adults accept the world as a matter of course. This is precisely where philosophers are a notable exception. A philosopher never gets quite used to the world. To him or her, the world continues to seem a bit unreasonable - bewildering, even enigmatic. Philosophers and small children thus have an important faculty in common. The only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder ... — Jostein Gaarder

Here is just the beginning of a list of skills that exam results cannot possibly hope to reflect: interpersonal skills, the ability to entertain, how articulate we are as speakers, our ability to work as part of a team, the ability to deal with challenges and invention. — Alexandra Adornetto

You're better off with a kick-ass half than a half-assed whole. — David Heinemeier Hansson

Two men could be just alike in all their dispositions to verbal behavior under all possible sensory stimulations, and yet themeanings or ideas expressed in their identically triggered and identically sounding utterances could diverge radically, for the two men, in a wide range of cases. — Willard Van Orman Quine

You are beautiful. You are unique. Your heart holds celestial love which flows like a mighty river through you to nourish the universe. — Debasish Mridha

There is no physical law precluding particles from being organised in ways that perform even more advanced computations than the arrangements of particles in human brains. — Stephen Hawking

It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man's own unless each day he maintains it and works it out in his life. — Epictetus

No prince had lived in those wretched hovels, no red-robed bishops, only farmers and laborers whose stories no one had written down, and now they were lost, buried under wild thyme and fast growing spurge. — Cornelia Funke

Her smile was lighter fluid to his testosterone. He was full caveman for a few heartbeats. — Debra Anastasia

I had been waiting to get Angus alone, and he appeared a little apprehensive about the occurrence when I discreetly said, 'Angus, my fine young man.' I smiled charmingly. Now he knew something was up, for certain. 'You wouldn't know how to build a bomb by any chance would you?'
He looked around sheepishly, 'Is this a trick question?'
I sighed impatiently, 'You're not going to get in trouble Angus.'
His shoulders dropped and he grinned wolfishly, 'Well in that case ... doesn't everyone? — Teresa Schulz

It's amazing how someone can break your heart, but you still love them with all the little pieces. — Ella Harper

Everyone needs to learn to see the invisible celestian realities. — Sunday Adelaja

I'm learning the power of going away for the weekend and keeping myself company. — Zoe Saldana