Glados Unused Quotes & Sayings

All great people are humble because great people have great work and are humbled by the largeness of their dreams. — May Sarton

An intellectual instinct which extracts the essence from the phenomena of life, as a bee sucks honey from a flower. In addition to study and reflections, life itself serves as a source. — Carl Von Clausewitz

It was just expected that I would go to college. Both my parents are teachers and they tolerated acting, but I was going to go to a school of quality or bust. Which made my downshifting back to acting afterward a little difficult. — Wentworth Miller

It is easier to start taxes than to stop them. A tax an inch long can easily become a yard long. That has been the history of the income tax. Would not the sales tax be likely to have a similar history [in the U.S.]? ... Canadian newspapers report that an increase in the sales tax threatens to drive the Mackenzie King administration out of office. Canada began with a sales tax of 2% ... Starting this month the tax is 6%. The burden, in other words, has already been increased 200% ... What the U.S. needs is not new taxes, is not more taxes, but fewer and lower taxes. — B.C. Forbes

There is one principle that should never be abandoned, namely, that the rider must learn to control himself before he can control his horse. This is the basic, most important principle to be preserved in equitation. — Alois Podhajsky

Stability cannot occur without a Palestinian Spring through the full implementation of the Palestinians' right to self-determination on their land. — Najib Mikati

A building or a town will only be alive to the extent that it is governed in a timeless way. It is a process which brings order out of nothing but ourselves; it cannot be attained, but it will happen of its own accord, if we will only let it. — Christopher Alexander

The fault lies not with the mob, who demands nonsense, but with those who do not know how to produce anything else. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

It's difficult to make any kind of action movie that might be unique or worth watching. — Ethan Hawke