Gertsman Appendix Quotes & Sayings

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. — Albert Einstein

Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches. — Dolly Parton

I really do feel like I was born to write and tell stories. — Christopher Barzak

I held on to his arm, which was belted securely around me, feeling safe because Dad was in charge and it was his hand that pulled the sun up each morning and down at night. — Jandy Nelson

If you don't know where you're going, then you can never truly know where you've been. — Jamie Christian Desplaces

Just as we may, through an appalled realization that we were unaware of what was going on in the mind of one we thought we knew, come to wonder how we ever know what another person is thinking or feeling, so too we may, having on some occasion wanted badly to understand and having clearly failed, come to wonder how we ever manage to understand, and how we know that we have succeeded. — Patrick Wilson

Man is born dead and he remains dead till he attains wisdom! Wisdom is the only resurrection man can obtain! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

While I told myself that each win was a small deposit on the ultimate ownership of the world welterweight crown, the enormous need in me to win touched a whole heap of other responses a fourteen years old can't really work out. It had something to do with rejecting the Lord, with my mother, the Judge, being surrounded by guys who came from wealthy homes, even my headless snake. While I didn't think of it as camouflage, I now know that it was, that I kept myself protected by being out in front. Too far in front to be an easy mark. — Bryce Courtenay