Gertsen Quotes & Sayings

What she did not know, and would never have believed, was that though her soul seemed to have been grown over with an impenetrable layer of mould, some delicate blades of grass, young and tender, were already pushing their way upwards, destined to take root and send out living shoots so effectively that her all-consuming grief would soon be lost and forgotten. The wound was healing from inside. — Leo Tolstoy

I care about our employees more than anybody in my company. I care about my kids, too, but that doesn't mean I give them everything that they want. — Charlie Ergen

Any time you try to create an Internet meme, automatic fail. That's like the worst thing you can do. — John Hodgman

In retrospect, I think I had some kind of learning disorder. I could kind of charm my way through grade school, but in high school ... I could never seem to grasp things. — Dave Cooper

People seemed to think, you get to a certain age or you get married or you, you're comfortable. And so now there's nothing to write about: that angst is gone. The youthful angst. And that just hasn't happened with me. — Lucinda Williams

Implacable resentment is a shade in a
character. But you have chosen your fault well. I really
cannot laugh at it. You are safe from me."
"There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some
particular evil - a natural defect, which not even the best education
can overcome."
"And your defect is to hate everybody."
"And yours," he replied with a smile, "is willfully to
misunderstand them. — Jane Austen

I'd rather lose an argument than get into a long discussion in order to win it. — Rafael Nadal

Playing music is a lifetime's work. And if you want to carry on with it, you have to try to better yourself. You have to see where the music can take you. — Paul Weller

There is a limbo of the lost through which American males of a certain age and status almost inevitably must pass these days. — Richard Schickel

It is true that we may desire much more. But let us use what we have, and God will give us more. — Adoniram Judson

We can never put ourselves in the shoes of children; we cannot fathom their thoughts, we lend them ours; and always following ourown reasoning, we stuff their heads with extravagance and error. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Practice is the price of mastery. Whatever you practice over and over again becomes a new habit of thought and performance. — Brian Tracy

pulling an uncooperative goat — Neil Gaiman