Gentlewoman Magazine Quotes & Sayings

Today the human race is a single twig on the tree of life, a single species on a single planet. Our condition can thus only be described as extremely fragile, endangered by forces of nature currently beyond our control, our own mistakes, and other branches of the wildly blossoming tree itself. Looked at this way, we can then pose the question of the future of humanity on Earth, in the solar system, and in the galaxy from the standpoint of both evolutionary biology and human nature. The conclusion is straightforward: Our choice is to grow, branch, spread and develop, or stagnate and die. — Robert Zubrin

I was not such a great student, .. So, when I graduated high school, I went to work cooking. I cooked a little at home, but back then, cooking wasn't really a profession that you aspired to, unless your family was in the business. I looked at it as a job. My first job was at Joe Allen's, and I remember there was a photo over the bar of the Triple Dead Heat from the 1944 Carter Handicap. — Bobby Flay

Hey, I always say: if you want a quiet life, become a monk. — Michael Caine

A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it - it keeps him upright. — Robert A. Heinlein

What you get is no longer what you see. — Margaret Atwood

I believe that proving is not a natural activity for mathematicians. — Rene Thom

When we sing with love, everything around us listens with joy. — Debasish Mridha

I saw Orin in bars or at post-tournament dances go up to a young lady he would like to pick up and use this fail-safe cross-sectional pick-up Strategy that involved an opening like "Tell me what sort of man you prefer, and then I'll affect the demeanor of that man." Which in a way of course is being almost pathologically open and sincere about the whole picking-up enterprise, but also has this quality of Look-At-Me-Being-So-Totally-Open-And-Sincere-I-Rise-Above-The-Whole-Disingenuous-Posing-Process-Of-Attracting-Someone-,-And-I-Transcend-The-Common-Disingenuity-In-A-Bar-Herd-In-A-Particularly-Hip-And-Witty-Self-Aware-Way-,-And-If-You-Will-Let-Me-Pick-You-Up-I-Will-Not-Only-Keep-Being-This-Wittily,-Transcendently-Open-,-But-Will-Bring-You-Into-This-World-Of-Social-Falsehood-Transcendence, which of course he cannot do because the whole openness-demeanor thing is itself a purposive social falsehood; it is a pose of poselessness; Orin Incandenza is the least open man I know. — David Foster Wallace

When I was growing up, I never heard the word 'racism.' It was only in Paris I encountered that. — Azzedine Alaia

The mind is a battlefield on which positive and negative thoughts complete for territory. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Why you need a reason for everything? Reason is something people say to make sense of things that don't make sense. — Gregg Olsen

An angry man is twice stronger than his normal. — Vignesh S.V

We can transform the government and the economy, as well as democracy, in Malaysia. — Najib Razak