Gesagt Quotes & Sayings

But Lord Arglay, at once in contact and detached, at once faithless and believing, beheld all these things in the light of that fastidious and ironical goodwill which, outside mystical experience, is the finest and noblest capacity man has developed in and against the universe. — Charles Williams

True heroism is minutes, hours, weeks, year upon year of the quiet, precise, judicious exercise of probity and care - with no one there to see or cheer. This is the world. — David Foster Wallace

The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once, by holding out no hopes to her suitor. — Marguerite De Valois

Tragedies make you realize how selfish you are. — Tony Dorsett

I've always been one for show business. I like performing, and I used to get criticized for having production value. But now it's all that! People need to get what they pay for! Otherwise, just listen to recorded music. — Barbara Mandrell

This shows you are never too old to get surprised. — Jack Welch

I looked up. From the pediment of an old brick church, a gigantic eye painted into a triangle was staring straight at me through the mist. — Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

When Jesus came to earth, demons recognized him, the sick flocked to him, and sinners doused his feet and head with perfume. Meanwhile he offended pious Jews with their strict preconceptions of what God should be like. Their rejection makes me wonder, could religious types be doing just the reverse now? Could we be perpetuating an image of Jesus that fits our pious expectations but does not match the person portrayed so vividly in the Gospels? — Philip Yancey

The complement of remembering so thoroughly can be the strange inability to forget anything at all. — Alexandra Horowitz

Just like the sun coming up yonder out of the sea, pushing rays of light ahead of it. — Esther Forbes

It is strange how sad it can be - sunlight in the afternoon, don't you think? — Jean Rhys

It was like she was MADE of cake, light and pretty and decorated on the outside-with her sweet laugh and pink streak to her hair-but it was anyone's guess what was on the inside. — Sarah Addison Allen

Journalism is organized gossip. — Edward Eggleston

The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow. — Kurt Vonnegut

The Stamp Act was a direct tax imposed on the colonies by King George III. This act inevitably led to the American Revolution. Just as the Stamp Act did in 1765, Obamacare should act as a wake-up call. Chief Justice Roberts provides us with a similar call to action. — Rand Paul