Gerbode Foundation Quotes & Sayings

May I offer you some advice?"
"I'd rather you offered me a fast horse and a head start," Richard said with a tight smile. "But I'll take the advice, too. — Sharon Kay Penman

For there is none of you so mean and base, That hath not noble lustre in your eyes. — William Shakespeare

Leavitt appeared, looming over him, a syringe in his hand. "I thought we'd come to an understanding, son. I was really hoping I wouldn't have to do this." He knelt down and stuck the needle in Thomas's neck, compressed the syringe with his thumb. Before he passed out, Thomas looked at Teresa again, their eyes meeting for just a few precious seconds. The world had already started to blur when they dragged her away, but he clearly heard what she called out to him. "Someday we'll be bigger." - — James Dashner

You are not only the solar spectrum with the seven luminous colours, but the sun himself, that illumines, warms, and revivifies! This is what you are, and I am the lowly woman that adores you. — Juliette Drouet

The 'natural' is not necessarily a 'human' value. Humanity has begun to transcend nature: we can no longer justify the maintenance of a discriminatory sex class system on grounds of its origins in nature. Indeed, for pragmatic reasons alone it is beginning to look as if we must get rid of it. — Shulamith Firestone

Wisconsin is very proud of the career and technical college system that we have back home. — Ron Kind

I learned how to write television scripts the same way I have learned to do almost everything else in my entire life, which is by reading. — Amy Bloom

Suspicion is a virtue as long its object is the preservation of public good — Patrick Henry

I think any time anybody sees the bad guy show emotion and you're not hitting the audience over the head, there's always a tinge of empathy for that individual. — Paul Wesley

And maps can really point to places
Where life is evil now:
Nanking. Dachau. — W. H. Auden

Let him be great, and love shall follow him. Nothing is more deeply punished than the neglect of the affinities by which alone society should be formed, and the insane levity of choosing associates by others eyes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

During the last 100 years, the House of Lords has never contributed one iota to popular liberties or popular freedom, or done anything to advance the common weal; but during that time it has protected every abuse and sheltered every privilege. — Joseph Chamberlain

It's a great thing when you feel that you recognize yourself, deeply and movingly, in a work of literature. — Lev Grossman

So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' The youth whispers, 'I can. — Ralph Waldo Emerson