Gondolataid Quotes & Sayings

The more challenging the obstacles in life, the greater the satisfaction in overcoming them. — Murad S. Shah

He had found the band of jackals he needed. But as Jack McCall rode through the center of town, he experienced the terrifying certainty that a man faces when he's about to make his own name famous. He lacked both a hero's calm and a coward's resolve to survive at any price. — Walter Hill

It's nice being friends over a period of time with people whose music you like so much, or other filmmakers, seeing people change, go through trials. — Noah Baumbach

Their life will be made of the same stuff as this spring afternoon. — Andrei Makine

I decided very early that I was going to be
a reporter, that I would not cheer for the
team. I don't denigrate people who do it.
It's fine. — Ernie Harwell

We try to teach our students how to think ... how to use their brains and imagination. Individual subjects can always be learned by a man who knows how to learn. We teach them to think, and the other subjects arise by themselves ... — Ben Bova

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own. — Aesop

Off with you" is a phrase used by people who lack the courtesy to say something more polite, such as "If there's nothing else you require, I must be going," or "I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to ask you to leave, please," or even "Excuse me, but I believe you have mistaken my home for your own, and my valuable belongings for yours, and I must ask you to return the items in question to me, and leave my home, after untying me from this chair, as I am unable to do it myself, if it's not too much trouble. — Lemony Snicket

It feels as though these things happened just yesterday. Music has that power to revive memories, sometimes so intensely they hurt. — Haruki Murakami

Any show that's bringing in a young audience is doing a good thing, because that's the only way that theater will continue to grow. All the other audience members are going to be dead soon! — Adam Pascal

The same thing will happen in China that happened in Chile. Political freedom will ultimately break out of its shackles. Tiananmen Square was only the first episode. It is headed for a series of Tiananmen Squares. It cannot continue to develop privately and at the same time maintain its authoritarian character politically. It is headed for a clash. Sooner or later, one or the other will give. — Milton Friedman

The female, she said, was like a queen who sat on her throne talking with God. This is the part of us that can converse easily with Spirit. She is wise and intuitive, and totally tuned in. However, by herself she cannot accomplish anything in the world, for she needs her best warrior to help her. This is the inner male. He has the power to bring her ideas to fruition, the power to make them real. In other words, without her wisdom the warrior acts aimlessly, even destructively. But when he is connected to her, and she is connected to Spirit, then he and she can become anything from a sage to a king, a magician, or a lover, but together they can become enlightened ones. — Tricia McCannon

Kelly Nakata didn't know much about what was going on, but she knew that once a dog starts biting for no good reason, it doesn't tend to stop. — Mira Grant

The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire! Hell is in your future if you give in to desire! — John Green