Gidenin Quotes & Sayings

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it. — Elizabeth Drew

Mandela's commitment to democracy was ratified not only by his election, but by his willingness to step down from power — Barack Obama

They need you until they don't need you. — Michael Connelly

If you read the stories of the great spiritual teachers of the past, we find that they have attained spiritual realization through a great deal of meditation, solitude and practice. They did not take any shortcuts. — Rajiv Mehrotra

Then she would laugh like the very spirit of fun; only in her laugh there was something missing. What it was, I
find myself unable to describe. I think it was a certain tone, depending upon the possibility of sorrow
MORBIDEZZA, perhaps. She never smiled. — George MacDonald

The CIA agent looked more dead than alive. Alex wondered if he had been hit, but there was no sign of any blood. Perhaps he was in shock. — Anthony Horowitz

Myself and my two younger sisters and brother were paid for any chores, whether it was washing pop's car, sweeping the lawn or picking mangoes. — Marie Helvin

Maybe as times get worse we get better. Our pain makes us feel other peoples too; our fear lets us practice valor; we are tense, and tender as well. And among the things we can no longer afford are things we never really wanted anyway ... — Nancy Gibbs

So do you think it's true what they say? About girls liking bastards?'
'He's not a bastard. He's an idiot.'
'Do girls like idiots then? — David Nicholls