Gennis Roberts Quotes & Sayings

You can question somebody's views and their judgment without questioning their motives or patriotism. — Barack Obama

The Church in England is the Church of England. — Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Human has no experience at all about
living in a peaceful world without war. — Toba Beta

Writing is a way of life. I do it because it's a way of experiencing the world, and trying to come to terms with it and understand it and express it and engage with it. And to me it's a natural extension of reading. — Emily Perkins

Publishing companies and a great many authors have missed the opportunity to capitalize on the very real relationships they create with their readers. — Vantile Whitfield

On the historical scale, the damages wrought by individual violence for selfish motives are insignificant compared to the holocausts resulting from self-transcending devotion to collectively shared belief-systems. It is derived from primitive identification instead of mature social integration; it entails the partial surrender of personal responsibility and produces the quasi-hypnotic phenomena of group-psychology. — Arthur Koestler

Dominique Strauss-Kahn has always had a reputation as a man who cares for women, and even a libertine ... There is a vast difference between [that] reputation ... and the charge which he is the object, which is a serious, very serious crime or sex crime. This is something very different. — Elisabeth Guigou

I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot. — Aimee Bender

It's weird to be called a celebrity or talk about it. I don't talk about being a celebrity in my business meetings. I don't talk about it with my friends. It's not a part of my life. It's a media perception of who I am. — Mary-Kate Olsen

Let's face it: I want it all
just like you and everybody else. It may not be in the cards, but the prospect is so dazzling that I have to try. — Lauren Bacall

I immersed myself in books and rock 'n' roll, the adolescent salvation ... — Patti Smith

Don't you know, priests, why our sermons do not touch the people's heart? Because we do not preach to the eyes, only to the ears. — Antonio Vieira

Through the passage of my life I have learned, that the power of positive association is so much stronger than any amount of negativity in the world. No matter how dark it is, a tiny beam of light is all it takes to kill the darkest of darkness. — Asma Naqi

Be compassionate ... and take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be a better place. — Mitch Albom