Gjerdrum Kirke Quotes & Sayings

Behind every successful man is a woman but few of us realize that behind most successful women is a man too; her father. — Shahla Khan

As I traveled around the country, I met hundreds if not thousands of people who want to change the country. And you've got, now, 1,900 Bernie [Sanders] delegates who are now going back to their communities in 50 states. — Jonathan Tasini

Those who forget the past tend to regret the future — Anne Tyler

I always liked to put on a tie. The more you look like an executive, the better treated you are. It catches people by surprise. — Don Wright

Goldstein was delivering his usual venomous attack upon the doctrines of the Party - an attack so exaggerated and perverse that a child should have been able to see through it, and yet just plausible enough to fill one with an alarmed feeling that other people, less level-headed than oneself, might be taken in by it. — George Orwell

In Sacramento, my brown was not halfway between black and white. On the leafy streets, on the east side of town, where my family lived, where Asians did not live, where Negroes did not live, my family's Mexican shades passed as various. — Richard Rodriguez

You are an ember in the ashes, Elias Veturius. You will spark and burn, ravage and destroy. You cannot change it. You cannot stop it. — Sabaa Tahir

He [Alex] was more of an idea than a true friend or a lover. We never got the chance to really know each other or test our compatibility over a significant period of time. I see now that he was sick - that maybe he pushed his needle too far away from the middle of the herd. But being with him for a short time helped push my needle just enough to free me from the life I hated, what everyone expected of me. And even though I have no idea what comes next, I'm grateful that I'm not signed up for a life that would make me miserable. — Matthew Quick

I just turned 40, and I look at so many performers and so many people who are actually always on time and always have an album out. They don't have actual lives, in my opinion. I feel like I'm so much more than being famous and meeting a musical quota. And I don't know, just the weight of the scrutiny and attention is too weird for me. — Maxwell

Am I worthy of Juliet, I wondered, worthy as my father was of my mother? — Robin Maxwell

It is inconceivable that a secret arm of the government has to comply with all the overt orders of the government. — James Jesus Angleton

You couldn't have small, dying children in a movie without really bringing everyone down, but you can in comics. — Chuck Palahniuk