Gestsoft Quotes & Sayings

The greatest happiness of life was to stand at the difficult border between success and failure. — Eiji Yoshikawa

God is making commerce His missionary. — Joseph Cook

I shall have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love, love, love, above all. Love as there has never been in a play. Unbiddable, ungovernable, like a riot in the heart and nothing to be done, come ruin or rapture. — Tom Stoppard

I want the 'Roots' biopic to be animated - I see Charles Schulz drawing us. I think it would be more hilarious with the voices of children. — Questlove

What I collect? Interesting jobs. Always to my thrill and excitement, but ultimately to my exhaustion, I collect interesting jobs. If an interesting job comes along, I take it; that's why I do so many things. I'm lucky to be able to. — John Hodgman

They took us to the best club in Bishkek, with a big black and white sign out front that said "Face Control" in English. Which meant that only the rich, pretty and famous were allowed in. This sort of thing is being done in clubs all over the world on a daily basis, but I had never before seen it done so explicitly - or so honestly. — Gunnar Garfors

The Ego is a veil between humans and God'."
"In prayer all are equal. — Rumi

College is the reward for surviving high school. Most people have great fun stories from college and nightmare stories from high school. — Judd Apatow

To be charitable, one may admit that the religious often seem unaware of how insulting their main proposition actually is. Exchange views with a believer even for a short time, and let us make the assumption that this is a mild and decent believer who does not open the bidding by telling you that your unbelief will endanger your soul and condemn you to hell. It will not be long until you are politely asked how you can possibly know right from wrong. Without holy awe, what is to prevent you form resorting to theft, murder, rape, and perjury? It will sometimes be conceded that non-believers have led ethical lives, and it will also be conceded (as it had better be) that many believers have been responsible for terrible crimes. Nonetheless, the working assumption is that we should have no moral compass if we were not somehow in thrall to an unalterable and unchallengeable celestial dictatorship. What a repulsive idea! — Christopher Hitchens

Everyone says social media is a unicorn, but maybe it's just a horse? — Jay Baer

Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself. — John Updike

In thirteen years, every aspect of the universe can change - ask a thirteen-year-old. — P. J. O'Rourke

Sometimes you can just feel when someone has been praying for you. Whomever it is Thank you!! — Amanda Penland

I notice faint scars on her wrists and forearms, thin lines too symmetrical to be accidents. — Isaac Marion