Gilier Quotes & Sayings

Often the presence of mind and energy of a person remote from the spotlight decide the course of history for centuries to come. — Stefan Zweig

I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else. — Oscar Wilde

we are all one family but love ourselves best. — Mary Oliver

Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good. — Blaise Pascal

Congress has shortchanged not only foreign aid but foreign policy. A mistaken notion that diplomats are unimportant and hence undeserving of support grips conservative legislators, especially. — Anthony Lewis

Recently I read the stories I wrote in my early 20s, to put in a volume. And here is this brittle young woman, writing about marriage as, not the worst thing, but the most boring thing that could happen to a person. Now I think I was wrong. I like to be proven wrong. — Anne Enright

It seems like everyone I know has very strong feelings about which boy is the best fit for Katniss, but also because the books themselves contain a commentary on the way audiences latch onto romance, even (and maybe especially) when lives are at
stake. — Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule. — Edmund Spenser

Most of the stories I have covered in 45 years have been gray stories. — Jim Lehrer

Lord judge between me and thee, and the Lord avenge me of thee: but mine hand shall not be upon thee. 13 As saith the — Anonymous

When you get a small group of fans who hate something, it becomes compounded by the internet. The press picks up the internet like it's a source. They don't realise it is just one person typing out their opinion. — George Lucas

Christian principles are, admittedly, stricter than the others; but then we think you will get help towards obeying them which you will not get towards obeying the others. — C.S. Lewis

Protection of private property is a fundamental right protected in a strong democracy. — Jim Ryun

I would never advise shooing away a good idea. — Phoebe Stone

The Victorian era was an age of superlatives and larger-than-life characters, and as far as that goes, Dr. Wildman Whitehouse fit right in: what Victoria was to monarchs, Dickens to novelists, Burton to explorers, Robert E. Lee to generals, Dr. Wildman Whitehouse was to assholes. The only 19th-century figure who even comes close to him in this department is Custer. — Neal Stephenson