Gilchrists Department Quotes & Sayings

The well being of democracies regardless of their type and status is dependent on one small technical detail: The right to vote. Everything else is secondary. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

The ignoramus crow of "love it or leave it" omits other viable options, such as staying and changing it. — Bryant McGill

Imagination without initiative would more properly be called idle daydreaming. — James Van Fleet

Write the truest sentence you know. Then write another."
Hemingway's advice to other young writers in "A Moveable Feast. — Ernest Hemingway,

But as Hegel teaches us, beginnings are necessarily problematic. (As are endings.) How can I describe my first encounter with Ana fairly, when my understanding of her essence has passed through infinite iterations over the past four and a half years? My — Alena Graedon

I have no urns, no dusty monuments;
No broken images of ancestors,
Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales
Of long descents, to boast false honors from. — Ben Jonson

My joy knows no bounds ... I will devote all my energy and all the powers available to me to the service of Nigeria and humanity. — Olusegun Obasanjo

I pass beneath a fixed white line of trees where dry leaves lie for footsteps to dismember. They crackle with a muted sound like fear. That and the wind are all that I can hear. I ask cold air, "What is the word that frees?" The wind says, "Change," and the white sun, "Remember. — Samuel R. Delany

A curious thought experiment ... Nietzsche's message to us was to live life in such a way that we would be willing to repeat the same life eternally — Irvin D. Yalom

A dog is like a person - he needs a job and a family to be what he's meant to be. — Andrew Vachss

You're always a bit blind. If you look at stuff a few years later, you get a more objective look at it. — Tom Hollander

How much of life have I missed, he wondered, simply by failing to look? Or by looking and not seeing? — Irvin D. Yalom

Having some support and the reassurance that my family, friends, or others will help me when I am anxious will often reduce my anxiety and panic. But because such support and reassurance may not exist or may not continue, I'd better not rely on it solely. I also had better gain self-confidence and self-support. 8. — Albert Ellis