Gertsen Byloe Quotes & Sayings

A lot of times you're just conditioned by what's around you. — Ruben Blades

Because you are human beings you are going to meet failure. You are going to meet disappointment, injustice, betrayal, and irreparable loss. You will find you're weak where you thought yourself strong. You'll work for possessions and then find they possess you. You will find yourself - as I know you already have - in dark places, alone, and afraid.

What I hope for you, for all my sisters and daughters, brothers and sons, is that you will be able to live there, in the dark place. To live in the place that our rationalizing culture of success denies, calling it a place of exile, uninhabitable, foreign.

From "A Left-Handed Commencement Address," Mills College 1983 — Ursula K. Le Guin

To do something is in every man's power. — Samuel Johnson

To Americans religious freedom is sacred. — John Travolta

I always feel like every film takes the franchise and hangs it in the balance. — Lauren Shuler Donner

The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well. — Charles De Lint

The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other. — Ralph Waldo Emerson