Geordie Johnson Quotes & Sayings

For my generation - the "Children of Nixon," as I call us in the book - the Lebanese civil war was an iconic event. Downtown Beirut became a metaphor for so many things: man's inhumanity to man, what Charles Bukowski called "the impossibility of being human." It shaped our perceptions of war and human nature, just as Vietnam did for our parents. We used it to understand how the world works. — Annia Ciezadlo

Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas? — Abraham Cowley

You may assume infinite ignorance and unlimited intelligence. — Leo Szilard

He that best understands the world, least likes it — Benjamin Franklin

I've never been a social bunny. I thrive on work. — Michelle Ryan

Handshakes and Hugs will always trump Likes and Shares. — C.C. Chapman

The moment of change is the only poem. — Adrienne Rich

We have learned to express the more delicate nuances of feeling by penetrating more deeply into the mysteries of harmony. — Robert Schumann

I do think sometimes people get morally superior without understanding situations. — Sienna Miller

Children can be so cruel,' the Doctor said. 'Children's writers can be even worse. — Puffin

We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

The air is part of the mountain, which does not come to an end with its rock and its soil. It has its own air; and it is to the quality of its air that is due the endless diversity of its colourings. Brown for the most part in themselves, as soon as we see them clothed in air the hills become blue. Every shade of blue, from opalescent milky-white to indigo, is there. They are most opulently blue when rain is in the air. Then the gullies are violet. Gentian and delphinium hues, with fire in them, lurk in the folds. — Nan Shepherd

We're not just going to have a life, remember? We're going to live. — T.M. Frazier

I just want to live my own life instead of everyone else's version of it. — Sol Luckman

It's interesting that people who can perpetrate cons have talked themselves into believing that they're not doing anything bad. That they tell themselves that there is nothing wrong with what they're doing is the crazy thing about human behavior. — Craig Zobel