Gerhardt Quotes & Sayings

The walls that caged me were not of this world, but were within my mind. — J.D. Stroube

Society is better off without certain people. — Bernhard Goetz

Pray absolutely for those things you may pray for absolutely. Pray conditionally for those things you may pray for conditionally. For those things you can't pray for - don't. — Paul Gerhardt

All my life I still have found, and I will forget it never;
Every sorrow hath its bound, and no cross endures forever. — Paul Gerhardt

For Hitschmann and Bergler, 'frigidity' had a single criterion: 'absence of the vaginal orgasm.' The standard was unqualified and absolute. A woman who did not enjoy intercourse: frigid. Women who derived sexual pleasure from acts other than intecourse were frigid too. Nothing else mattered, only whether a woman had an orgasm because a man's penis was inside her vagina. Sexually agressive women were labeled 'frigid' because of the association between masculinity and aggressiveness. Womanhood that was not passive was not properly womanly. "Frigidity," as Jane Gerhardt points out, "thus became a label and a diagnosis that defined how much sexual desire a woman must have and in what kinds of sexual behavior she must engage to be 'healthy'. — Hanne Blank

Originally a pupil of Liebig, I became a pupil of Dumas, Gerhardt and Williamson: I no longer belonged to any school. — August Kekule

That shows how impossible it is to be a woman. One's whole life depends on one's looks but one mayn't speak of one's own beauty — Rebecca West

The fear is simply because you are not living with life, You are living in your mind. — Jaggi Vasudev

A world she despised, could not comprehend, nor defend herself against. a world that did not want her — Harper Lee

Empathy is one of our highest human skills and holds families and societies together. Feeling connected to other people is probably the deepest satisfaction we will ever know. How terrible for children who are being brought up without that capacity. — Sue Gerhardt

I felt more alone that week than any. Sometimes I'd feel a body lying next to me like an amputee feels a phantom limb. All I did was think about Jennie Gerhardt and Alice Quinn and all the decades of people I had known. The more I thought, the more I felt like crying. Life seemed so sweet and so sad, and so hard to let go of in the end. But hey, man, every day is a brand new deal, right? Just keep on working and something's bound to turn up. — Harvey Pekar

Yeah, yeah, yeah, time travel's a nightmare. Don't go down that path. — Domhnall Gleeson

The world acquires value only through its extremes and endures only through moderation; extremists make the world great, the moderates give it stability. — Paul Valery

Through waves and clouds and storms His power will clear your way; Wait for his time; the darkest night Shall end in brightest day. — Paul Gerhardt

Don't blame people for who they are, blame yourself for thinking they were different. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

The current model is global suicide. We need a revolution. Revolutionary thinking. Revolutionary action. Natural resources are becoming more and more scarce. — Ban Ki-moon

If I Had A Car By Ted Summerfield Title: If I Had A Car Author: Ted Summerfield Published by Miown Publishing Copyright July 2011 Ted Summerfield Cover by: Ted Summerfield ISBN: 978-0-9868804-6-9 — Ted Summerfield

The study of music was a family interest. — Emanuel Celler

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness — Margaret Atwood

I do not believe that the desires of young boys cause catastrophic events. The actions of humans do. — Melina Marchetta

Drinking is for the moon," she would say as she poured her wine. "Darkness hides our smaller sins. But the sun isn't so
forgiving. Light requires the innocence of sobriety. — Kyra Davis

In deriving a body from the water type I intend to express that to this body, considered as an oxide, there corresponds a chloride, a bromide, a sulphide, a nitride, etc., susceptible of double compositions, or resulting from double decompositions, analogous to those presented by hydrochloric acid, hydrobromic acid, sulphuretted hydrogen, ammonia etc., or which give rise to the same compounds. The type is thus the unit of comparison for all the bodies which, like it, are susceptible of similar changes or result from similar changes. — Charles Frederic Gerhardt

Commit whatever grieves thee into the gracious hands of Him who never leaves thee, who heav'n and earth commands. Who points the clouds their courses, Whom winds and waves obey, He will direct thy footsteps and find for thee a way. — Paul Gerhardt

An open mind is like to an open wound. Vulnerable to poison. Liable to fester. Apt to give its owner only pain. — Joe Abercrombie