Gizdav Quotes & Sayings

The president, who finds so much to complain about in other areas of the world, apparently saw nothing wrong in recognizing a Communist regime that has killed more people in its short history of control over the teeming millions of that great country than any other collection of dictators or tyrants in the history of the world. — Barry Goldwater

(Politeness is) a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects, whether moral or intellectual, shall on either side be ignored and not be made the subject of reproach. — Arthur Schopenhauer

The gulls who scorn perfection for the sake of travel go nowhere, slowly. Those who put aside travel for the sake of perfection go anywhere, instantly. — Richard Bach

The average politician goes through a sentence like a man exploring a disused mine shaft-blind, groping, timorous and in imminent danger of cracking his shins on a subordinate clause or a nasty bit of subjunctive. — Robertson Davies

Thus, after a period of about two thousand years the greatest crime became to worship a god other than the God of Moses, whereas injustice became a minor sin. I began to ask myself how this change had come about. Was it linked to a new order in which the female goddesses had been replaced by one male god? — Nawal El Saadawi

It is evident that one cannot say anything demonstrable about the problem before having resolved these preliminary questions, and yet we hardly possess the necessary information to solve some of them. — Georges Cuvier

To think, a sweater, is made entirely of knots. My stomach could clothe a village. — Andrea Gibson

You're the love of my life. I don't care how corny that sounds. You're the start of it, and the end of it. And you're the best of it. — J.D. Robb

I've had to write a column an hour after I've come back from a funeral. A deadline is a deadline, I mean, that was just what my job was. — Laurie Notaro

The human spirit must transcend number and break through multiplicity, and God will break through him; and just as He — Meister Eckhart

Once you've achieved everything, there is nothing left. You take out the core of being human: the striving. — Peter F. Hamilton

The Senior Moment has become the Google moment, and it has a much nicer, hipper, younger, more contemporary sound, doesn't it? By handling the obligations of the search mechanism, you almost prove you can keep up. — Nora Ephron

Gender-dominated environments are not good ... particularly in the financial sector where there are too few women. In gender-dominated environments, men have a tendency to ... show how hairy chested they are, compared with the man who's sitting next to them. I honestly think that there should never be too much testosterone in one room. — Christine Lagarde