Gorczynski Quotes & Sayings

All I knew was that I couldn't have him right now. It was impossible. Could I have him in a year? Two years? Five years? Ten years? I didn't know. All I knew was that although the universe was pushing us together, it was also pushing us apart. — Lily Paradis

Anything that stretches the mind is a help to the potential author. — Madeleine L'Engle

I sleep so much better at night, knowing that America is protected from thin pickles and fast ketchup. — Orrin Hatch

I can remember the lush spring excitement of language in childhood. Sitting in church, rolling it around my mouth like marbles
tabernacle and pharisee and parable, tresspass and Babylon and covenant. — Penelope Lively

We are not to lead events, but to follow them. — Epictetus

Whom the dawn sees proud, evening sees prostrate. — Seneca The Younger

If a religious principle is worth anything, it applies to a million of human beings as truly as to one; and the difficulty of insisting on its wider application does not furnish any proof that it ought not to be so applied. — Henry Parry Liddon

If the other fellow sells cheaper than you, it is called dumping. 'Course, if you sell cheaper than him, that's mass production. — Will Rogers

The practical common-sense of modern society, the utilitarian direction which labor, laws, opinion, religion, take, is the natural genius of the British mind. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no single truth in a world ruled by many political parties. — Toba Beta

The annoying thing about Ronan was always that he was angry when everyone else was calm, and calm when everyone else was angry. — Maggie Stiefvater

Reality is what you think. — Adeeb

To all the people who take my quiz! You guys are the greatest! — Becca Blond

Nothing can appear more contradictory than the principles on which the old governments began, and the condition to which society, civilisation and commerce are capable of carrying mankind. Government, one the old system, is an assumption of power, for the aggrandisement of itself; on the new, a delegation of power for the common benefit of society. The former supports itself by keeping up a system of war; the later promotes a system of peace, as the true means of enriching a nation. The one encourages national prejudices; the other promotes universal society, as the means of universal commerce. The one measures its prosperity, by the quantity of revenue it extorts; the other proves its excellence, by the small quantity of taxes it requires. — Thomas Paine