Getting Past The Gatekeeper Quotes & Sayings

I remember the first time I went to Europe, I had someone take a picture of me there, so I could really see myself there. There's a sense of being outside yourself, and I think celebrity allows us that too, to be outside ourselves. — Jess Walter

It is small comfort to a mouse, if an elephant is standing on its tail, to say 'I am impartial.' In this instance, you are really supporting the elephant in its cruelty. — Desmond Tutu

Fashion seems to exist for an abstract person who is not you or me. — Elizabeth Bowen

America is a great country, and we've done a lot of good in the world. But we are a collection of people, not saints. We have our own sins to atone for. — Marianne Williamson

The Chinese tell time by 'The Year of the Horse' or 'The Year of the Dragon.' I tell time by 'The Year of the Back' and 'The Year of the Elbow.' This year it's 'The Year of the Ulnar Nerve.' Someone once asked me if I had any physical incapacities of my own. 'Sure I do,' I said. 'One big one - Jim Palmer.' — Earl Weaver

Sight-seeing, aside from the fact that everything had been seen already, could not have for him
and intelligent Russian
the inexplicable importance attached to it by the English. — Leo Tolstoy

Most of us don't know about happiness until it's over. — Claudette Colbert

For more than twenty years, I have been seeking a way to be both rational and spiritual. I have been looking for a ray of hope in an otherwise-compartmentalized world in which people segregate religious aspirations and rationality in the hope of not having to resolve the glaring gap between the two. It's a gap that seems almost impossible to bridge, but I refuse to accept that disparity. — Gudjon Bergmann

Six is old enough to know how to pick a lock, but not old enough to know that you don't want to be picking that lock. — Sheila Wray Gregoire

Does a special love withstand the test of time? Like the grass that overcomes a 500lb slab of sidewalk concrete or the proverbial flower that shatters the stone, can Christ overcome the barriers and deep darkness of mortal moments? — Rob Guinan

The mystery of life is not salved by success, which is an end in itself, but in failure, in perpetual struggle, in becoming. — Patrick White

Go after what it is that creates meaning in your life and then trust yourself to handle the stress that follows. — Kelly McGonigal

Transcend political correctness and strive for human righteousness. — Anthony J. D'Angelo