Goles De Pele Quotes & Sayings

I saw that the State was half-witted, that it was timid as a lone woman with her silver spoons, and that it did not know its friends from its foes, and I lost all my remaining respect for it, and pitied it. — Henry David Thoreau

He is the best preacher, not that tickles the ear, but that breaks the heart. — Thomas Brooks

I can drive. Let's just say you don't want to be in the passenger seat. — Nicolas Berggruen

To the uninformed observer, the agonizing cramps in a marathon runner's calf muscles are heroic while the relentless explosions of a dominatrix's paddle against her client's bottoms are obscene and perverted. That the two victims might confront their ordeals for similar reasons, and take away similar benefits, has rarely been considered.

Grant Antrews, Submissions — Grant Antrews

Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison. — Mahatma Gandhi

I always had this idea that you should never give up a happy middle in the hopes of a happy ending, because there is no such thing as a happy ending. Do you know what I mean? There is so much to lose. — John Green

I tell my students, with a feeling of pride that I hope they will share, that the carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen that make up ninety-nine per cent of our living substance were cooked in the deep interiors of earlier generations of dying stars. Gathered up from the ends of the universe, over billions of years, eventually they came to form, in part, the substance of our sun, its planets, and ourselves. Three billion years ago, life arose upon the earth. It is the only life in the solar system. — George Wald

I wish I could write well enough to write that story, he thought. What we did. Not what the others did to us. — Ernest Hemingway,

Alcohol units: 5. Drowning sorrows. Cigarettes: 23. Fumigating sorrows. Calories: 3,856. Smothering sorrows in fat duvet. — Helen Fielding

When you're dealing with an ambivalent relationship, you're constantly on guard, grappling with questions of trust. — Adam Grant

A good jolly is worth what you pay for it. — George Ade

I only care for the subjective life; I am very German, you see: The woods interest me, and the world does not. — Ouida