Gical Quotes & Sayings

The university must be retrospective. The gale that gives direction to the vanes on all its towers blows out of antiquity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Travel is like adultery; one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one's own country. To have imagination is inevitably to be dissatisfied with where you live ... in our wanderlust, we are lovers looking for consummation. — Anatole Broyard

Grace Reed: the bride at every wedding, the corpse at every wake. — Huntley Fitzpatrick

History is a river that never ends. Today is history, and I am here at the fountainhead. — Wilbur Smith

If someone is going to criticize what you've written and you believe in what you've written then you should respond. — H. G. Bissinger

Spirit means essentially two things: 1. The power of thinking - conscious, deliberate, rational understanding. Not sense perception; that's the work of a bodily organ, like the eye. 2. The power of willing and choosing and deliberately loving. Not sensory appetite; that's the work of a bodily function, like hunger. — Peter Kreeft

The surest way to return to the people's business is to listen to the people themselves: We need to drop this whole scheme of federally controlled health care, start over, and work together on real reforms at the state level that will contain costs and won't leave America trillions of dollars deeper in debt. — Scott Brown

It was pretty clear who was winning this battle. Even though it wasn't a competition. But part of me felt like it was. Which one of us could survive without the other? — Elizabeth Eulberg

People never think of themselves as choosing to be politically correct. They simply think in the way that they do. — Roger Ebert