Gernetic Synchro Quotes & Sayings

Even the pleasant things in life are grasped after with an unwarranted desire which overestimates the pleasure they will give, and is accompanied by a constant fear of their loss. — David Ross Komito

What the world thought made little difference. Rembrandt had to
paint. Whether he painted well or badly didn't matter; painting was the
stuff that held him together as a man. The chief value of art, Vincent, lies
in the expression it gives to the artist. Rembrandt fulfilled what he knew
to be his life purpose; that justified him. Even if his work had been
worthless, he would have been a thousand times more successful than if
he had put down his desire and become the richest merchant in
Amsterdam. (Mendes Da Costa — Irving Stone

She that asks
Her dear five hundred friends, contemns them all,
And hates their coming. — William Cowper

A guilty conscience is a great blessing, but only if it drives us to come home. — John R.W. Stott

There's a writer for you," he said. "Knows everything and at the same time he knows nothing."
[narrator]It was my first inkling that he was a writer. And while I like writers - because if you ask a writer anything you usually get an answer - still it belittled him in my eyes. Writers aren't people exactly. Or, if they're any good, they're a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person. It's like actors, who try so pathetically not to look in mirrors. Who lean backward trying - only to see their faces in the reflecting chandeliers. — F Scott Fitzgerald

A book lets you choose how much of the blood you want to see. A book gives you the permission to see the story as you want, as your mind directs. — Caroline Kepnes

Sugar Ray wouldn't give me a rematch, and that's the reason I walked away from boxing. — Marvin Hagler