Gigil Quotes & Sayings

You can't judge a man solely on his actions. Sometimes actions are nothing more than re actions. - Loring Blackman — Tiffanie DeBartolo

We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion. — Erica Jong

The strategic optionalities may include, among other things, the option to expand, contract, abandon, switch, choose, and so forth. Based on the identification of strategic optionalities that exist for each project or at each stage of the project, the analyst can then choose from a list of options to analyze in more detail. — Johnathan Mun

Finally, my mother's training will be put to good use. Never mind finding an eligible bachelor, I mean to find a murderer. — Alyxandra Harvey

The mind can take in many things, but it cannot take in God. — Rita Leganski

The businessman who is a novelist is able to drop in on literature and feel no suicidal loss of esteem if the lady is not at home, and he can spend his life preparing without fuss for the awful interview. — V.S. Pritchett

Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive. They are too often praised for being broadminded when they are so broadminded they can never make up their minds about anything. — Fulton J. Sheen

Leaves, while they live, hang together; dying, they fall one by one. — Marty Rubin

He caught me stealing his golden phoenix.'
Tithonus closed his eyes briefly. 'Good grief!' He opened them again. 'I was half hoping it wasn't true. Have you any idea of the implications?'
'He was mistreating it!' Pyrgus protested.
'Of course he was mistreating it. This is Black Hairstreak we're talking about. He mistreats his own mother. I don't suppose you stole her as well? — Herbie Brennan

He loaded his soldiers into boats, sailed to the enemy's country, unloaded soldiers and equipment, then gave the order to burn the ships that had carried them. Addressing his men before the first battle, he said, "You see the boats going up in smoke. That means that we cannot leave these shores alive unless we win! We now have no choice - we win, or we perish! They won. Every — Napoleon Hill

Absence makes the heart grow desperate. — Lisa Schroeder

Getawayfrommeyoumiserablelittlecreep. — Cinda Williams Chima

I always try to make sure that I stay connected to theater so I continue to be inspired. Not that I'm not inspired by television. — Rutina Wesley

Those whose approval you seek most give you the least. — Maurice Chevalier

Historical context apart, Klemperer's journals can be read for their own sake as a gnawing meditation on the disappointments of life and the irrevocability of choices. He is intensely aware at all moments, perhaps because of his consciousness of being a "survivor," that death is only a breath away. He is one of the great kvetches of all time, endlessly recording aches and pains, bad dreams, shortages of food and medicine, snubs and humiliations. And, like everyone else, he wants everything both ways. In — Christopher Hitchens