Gnel Sedrakyan Quotes & Sayings

No author, I think, is deserving of much censure for vanity if, taking down one of his ten-year-old books, he exclaims: "Great heavens, did I write as well as that then?" for the implication always is that one does not write any longer so well and few are so envious as to censure the complacencies of an extinct volcano. — Ford Madox Ford

He stands with his hands in his pockets, well-dressed and self-assured, with his life before him and a plush armchair behind him. — Edmund De Waal

She studied it soberly, with something like recognition or acknowledgment in her eyes, as if those who have been dead understand things that will never be understood by those who have only lived. In — Wallace Stegner

Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with. — Charles Farrar Browne

Sometimes chaos is a little easier to handle than the regular moments because your body just takes over. No time to think. Just do. — Lenny Jacobson

Something bright and alien flashed across the sky ... and for a moment people set down their glasses in country clubs and speakeasies and thought of their old best dreams. Maybe there was a way out by flying, maybe our restless blood could find frontiers in the illimitable air. But by that time we were all pretty well committed; and the Jazz Age continued; we would all have one more. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I don't have a daily routine, beyond brushing my teeth. It changes every day. — Paloma Faith

A lecture is much more of a dialogue than many of you probably realize. — George Wald

I will advise you to wait until you are at least in the university, wait until you own yourself a little more. Do you understand?"
"Yes," Ifemelu said. She did not know what "own yourself a little more" meant. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The sociological organization is alive, holistic, vibrant, energetic, responsive, fluid, creative and innovation. — Pearl Zhu

Propaganda (things to be propagated) is inescapable. It is not *whether* certain values will be propagated, but rather, *which* values will be propagated. — Douglas Wilson

The principle, on which the war was waged by the North, was simply this: That men may rightfully be compelled to submit to, and support, a government that they do not want; and that resistance, on their part, makes them traitors and criminals. — Lysander Spooner

There isn't a simple person anywhere in this world. — Kristin Cashore