Gladnesses Quotes & Sayings

Beauty is wasted on the wicked. — Michelle A. Valentine

You ever hear about that experiment an American journalist did in Moscow in the 1970s? He just lined up at some building, nothing special about it, just a random door. Sure enough, someone got in line behind him, then a couple more, and before you knew it, they were backed up around the block. No one asked what the line was for. They just assumed it was worth it. I can't say if that story was true. Maybe it's an urban legend, or a cold war myth. Who knows? — Max Brooks

To be civilized, really, is to be aware of the others, their hopes, their gladnesses, their illusions about life. — Sherwood Anderson

Richard Nixon has never been one of my favorite people, anyway. For years I've regarded his very existence as a monument to all the rancid genes and broken chromosomes that corrupt the possibilities of the American Dream; he was a foul caricature of himself, a man with no soul, no inner convictions, with the integrity of a hyena and the style of a poison toad. — Hunter S. Thompson

It is only when we admit our ignorance that we can hope to overcome it. — Chris Matakas

When we look back at the Mayans or ancient Egypt, we look at their art. — Robert Wilson

On a bike, being just slightly above pedestrian and car eye level, one gets a perfect view of the goings-on in one's own town. — David Byrne

Deciding denial was the better part of valor, CK pretended nothing was out of the ordinary. — Judy Teel