Goldacres Quotes & Sayings

Kind words not only lift our spirits in the moment they are given, but they can linger with us over the years. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

Those who are nurtured best, survive best. — Louis Cozolino

Our problem as Americans
at least, among my race and gender
is that we resist the very idea of limits, regarding limits of all sorts as temporary and regrettable impositions on our lives. — Parker J. Palmer

If capitalism had never existed, any honest humanitarian should have been struggling to invent it. But when you see men struggling to evade its existence, to misrepresent its nature, and to destroy its last remnants - you maybe sure that whatever their motives, love of man is not one of them. — Ayn Rand

The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody. This of all miseries is the coldest. — Victor Hugo

Today is a sacred moment. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The pattern of the narrative never of necessity wants to end, it never has to. — Robert Creeley

When men perceive the world as being right, we are content. But if we see a hole - a deficiency - we scramble to fill it. — Brandon Sanderson

Be angry about the treacherous use of patriotic vocabulary. — Timothy Snyder

When we look at the situation in Ferguson, Missouri and the tragic death of Michael Brown, we are reminded of the importance of who we elect to our city councils, who sits on our local board of education committees, who we pick to represent us in Congress, in the Senate and more. — Al Sharpton

I miss her all the time. I know in my head that she has gone. The only difference is that I am getting used to the pain. It's like discovering a great hole in the ground. To begin with, you forget it's there and keep falling in. After a while, it's still there, but you learn to walk round it. — Rachel Joyce

Like the medieval heretics that Norm Cohn wrote about in The Pursuit of the Millennium, the Beats cultivated an extreme narcissism that bordered on self-deification and that 'liberated them from all restraints' and allowed them to experience every impulse as a 'divine command'. What Norman Podhoretz observed of Ginsberg was also true of the Beats generally: they 'conjured up a world of complete freedom from the limits imposed by [bourgeois] responsibilities'. Podhoretz added, 'It was a world that promised endless erotic possibility together with the excitements of an expanded consciousness constantly open to new dimensions of being: more adventure, more sex, more intensity, more life'. Alas, the promise was illusory. Instead of an 'expanded consciousness', the Beats purchased madness, ruination, and, for many, an early death. Their attack on bourgeois responsibility led not to greater freedom but to greater chaos. The erotic paradise they envisioned turned out to be rife with misery. — Roger Kimball

I mean, you're gonna be left behind if you don't appreciate the genius that is Meredith Vieira. — Mo Rocca

Write. Edit. Repeat. — Miles White

Some say there's no magic formula. I say there is. It's just that the magic is different for everyone. — Matt Fitzgerald