Gord Nixon Quotes & Sayings

Nothing goes on forever. I think that's one of the illusions of life. When I talk about my life being an extension of my dreams and fantasies, there's a tendency to think of them as immature. I live in a mature world. The majority of the people in this society live with delusions and illusions much more irrational and hurtful than mine. They deal with mortality, with fantasies relating to heaven and hell, and they don't really deal with their problems at all. — Hugh Hefner

The democratic principle, enunciated in the words of the Declaration of Independence, declared that government was secondary, that the people who established it were primary. Thus, the future of democracy depended on the people, and their growing consciousness of what was the decent way to relate to their fellow human beings all over the world. — Howard Zinn

When you have a child, as anyone knows who has them, that's basically all you want to talk about. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

I had a vision how it should sound and I put all my knowledge into this product and it is a fantastic product. People still tell me that I have the best musical thing there. — Miroslav Vitous

What they ask you for is actions, proofs, works, and all you can produce are transformed tears. — Emil Cioran

My body is covered in marks, Cole."
Big deal. "Mine too, sweetheart."
She snorted. "Yours are war scars."
"Yours too, Christy. I waged war with others while you waged war with yourself. It's the same. It's just life; there's nothing to be ashamed of. We both survived. This body tells its own story, and it's an amazing story. You are amazing. — Elle Aycart

Your dreamers may dream it
The shadow of a dream,
Your sages may deem it
A bubble on the stream;
Yet our kingdom draweth nigher
With each dawn and every day,
Through the earthquake and the fire
Love will find out the way. — Alfred Noyes

Wit can be beautiful, because it expresses and distills an idea. — Stephen Fry

I am floating, I thought, completely without anchor, at the mercy of the wind. — S.J. Watson

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. — John Ciardi

Conservatives want smaller government. They want to focus on market-based solutions wherever one can. They want to have as little regulation as possible. But in general, they recognize that government must play an important role for a society to operate. — Norman Ornstein

If you love her, then love the woman you see, not the woman you suppose, presume, assume, and surmise that she might have been. — Ilya Atani