Gendreau History Quotes & Sayings

Books change us. Books save us. I know this because it happened to me. Books saved me. So, I do believe through stories we can learn to change, we can learn to empathize and be more connected with the universe and with humanity. — Elif Safak

We have to be wary of our brains. They make our decisions before we make them. They lead us to still waters. They renounceth free will. And it gets weirder: If you slice a brain down the middle, the left hemisphere and the right hemisphere will operate self-sufficiently and not know what the other is doing. — E.L. Doctorow

They say the nail that sticks out gets hammered down — Daniel H. Wilson

He stands not alone. You would die before your stroke fell. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Every leader wants to put his or her imprint on the work that they do, and grow up in specific eras. — George Papandreou

Apparently Jamie is great at being soft and hard at the same time. Which is hard to do for an actor! He's going to get an Oscar! — Kelly Marcel

Only the modern city," Hegel dares write, "offers the mind a field in which it can become aware of itself." We are thus living in the period of big cities. Deliberately, the world has been amputated of all that constitutes its permanence: nature, the sea, hilltops, evening meditation. Consciousness is to be found only in the streets, because history is to be found only in the streets - this is the edict. — Albert Camus

GPs are almost the only doctors these days who understand all problems, can see the whole person ... spend time with the dying ... see things through to the end. — Jane Wilson-Howarth

What acts as a far more effective circumstance for generating compassion and what, in fact, rouses us from our comfortable meditation seat is actually seeing or hearing others - encountering others directly, not just conceptually in our imagination. — Dalai Lama

Sometimes she thought the Creator had only made men to cause trouble for women. — Robert Jordan

I made a better decision in choosing my team. Sure, I had a bigger choice of players to choose from - but I couldn't have asked for a harder working group of players who did an incredible job. — Vladimir Kramnik