Gerety Building Quotes & Sayings

We can't rely on magic to win the day. — Cinda Williams Chima

These are people who consciously choose failure in order to preserve their own sense of integrity. They are more elitist than mere snobs, because of their high standards. — Azar Nafisi

I'm always interested in encountering people who are synesthetic and seeing how they experience things. — Leni Zumas

But now he understood why someone would write things like 'she walked in beauty like the night' and so forth. Because poetry was a barrier against raw emotions. It distilled them into bearable music, allowed one to accommodate them a little at a time. — Julie Anne Long

If a man admires a woman he had something in his mind that he would like to carry further. If a woman admires a man, she had definitely made up her mind. — Girdhar Joshi

There is, we are aware, a philosophy that denies the infinite. There is also a philosophy, classified as pathologic, that denies the sun; this philosophy is called blindness. To set up a theory that lacks a source of truth is an excellent example of blind assurance. And the odd part of it is the haughty air of superiority and compassion assumed toward the philosophy that sees God, by this philosophy that has to grope its way. It makes one think of a mole exclaiming, "How I pity them with their sun!" There are, we know, illustrious and powerful atheists; with them, the matter is nothing but a question of definitions, and at all events, even if they do not believe in God, they prove God, because they are great minds. We hail, in them, the philosophers, while, at the same time, inexorably disputing their philosophy. — Victor Hugo

Success may result in winning, but winning does not necessarily mean you are a success. — John Wooden

The fastest way to attain courage is to follow the chosen Way and be willing to abandon life itself for the sake of justice. — Mas Oyama

The people of western Missouri are, in some respects, very peculiar. We will take Jackson county where I was born for instance. In that section the people seemed to be born fighters, the instinct being inherited from a long line of ancestors. — Cole Younger