Gildas Club Quotes & Sayings

The world doesn't owe you anything. It was here first. — Mark Twain

What shall it profit the sick man to imagine himself, as all men do, to be well, if the physician says he is sick! — Soren Kierkegaard

I'm a big fan of martial arts films, novels and radio programs. — Wong Kar-Wai

A peaceful mind is the source of all joy and all happiness. — Debasish Mridha

The racial divides in the United States will not be overcome until lynchings of all kinds are as painful to nonblacks as they are to blacks, until each of us become guardians of the sufferings history has bequeathed us. — Julius Lester

We are apt to think that everything that happens to us is to be turned into useful teaching; it is to be turned into something better than teaching, into character. We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something. — Oswald Chambers

As part of the logic of human sociality, the internal cohesion of a group is in direct proportion to the degree of threat it perceives from the outside. It follows that anyone who wants to unite a nation, especially one that has been deeply fractured, must demonise an adversary or, if necessary, invent an enemy. For the Turks it was the Armenians. For the Serbs it was the Muslims. For Stalin it was the bourgeoisie or the counter-revolutionaries. For Pol Pot it was the capitalists and intellectuals. For Hitler it was Christian Europe's eternal Other, the Jews. — Jonathan Sacks

His straight face was disrupted by a smile that disappeared almost as quickly as a box of chocolates in my kitchen. — Katherine Bayless

We do not compromise our own faith by admitting the honesty of another's doubt. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

I love you, Emily. I will always love you. This life and the one after and the one after that. I will always only love you." Her soft laughter filled the room. "We only get one life," she said. "I don't believe that. I won't accept it. I want a million lives with you. You're my heaven. — Abbi Glines

Provided that any of those neighbours sing out of tune or have boots that squeak, or double chins, or odd clothes, the patient will quite easily believe that their religion must therefore be somehow ridiculous. — C.S. Lewis

Flying prevails whenever a man and his airplane are put to a test of maximum performance. — Richard Bach

It was announced today that Iran has reached a deal with the U.S. to limit its nuclear program and send most of its uranium to Russia. Then Americans said, 'That's great! Wait, WHAT?' — Jimmy Fallon