Gid Associates Quotes & Sayings

Abstractedly speaking, government, as well as liberty, is good; yet could I, in common sense, ten years ago, have felicitated France on her enjoyment of a government (for she then had a government) without inquiry what the nature of that government was, or how it was administered? Can I now congratulate the same nation upon its freedom? Is it because liberty in the abstract may be classed amongst the blessings of mankind, that I am seriously to felicitate a mad-man, who has escaped from the protecting restraint and wholesome darkness of his cell, on his restoration to the enjoyment of light and liberty? Am I to congratulate a highwayman and murderer, who has broke prison, upon the recovery of his natural rights? This would be to act over again the scene of the criminals condemned to the galleys, and their heroic deliverer, the metaphysic knight of the sorrowful countenance. — Edmund Burke

When a lot of people meditate what they do is they're thinking about other people. This is a terrible mistake. If you do this, stop! — Frederick Lenz

None are so busy as the fool and the knave. — John Dryden

The relief came from the sudden realization that she had just been freed from a job she despised. — John Grisham

Though you have sinned much, that is no reason why you should despair, but only why you should love much, having so much forgiven. — George Whitefield

Shylock repointed his twitching, accusatory digit at his daughter. "You do not say such things in my house. You - you - you - you - " "Run along, love, it appears that Papa's been stricken with an apoplexy of the second person. — Christopher Moore

The only thing I can say that is not bullshit is that you do have to learn to write in a way that you would learn to play the violin. Everybody seems to think that you should be able to turn on the faucet one day and out will come the novel. I think for most people it's just practice, practice, practice, that sense of just learning your instrument until - when you have an idea on the violin, you don't have to translate it into violin-speak anymore - the language is your own. It's not something you can think your way into, or outsmart. you've just got to do it. — Kevin Canty

You've got to earn respect as life goes on. — LaDainian Tomlinson

I serve, should be the motto of all the princes of the royal family of heaven. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Average men and women don't really exist except as a statistical conceit. — John Taylor Gatto

There are worse things than suffering and death ... it is worse to lose one's self-respect. — Sandor Marai

I do not believe in death without resurrection. If they kill me I will rise again in the people of El Salvador. — Oscar Romero