Gorrety Quotes & Sayings

Knowing another is endless,' Shepherd had written; 'The thing to be known grows with the knowing. — Robert Macfarlane

The world got itself in a big ass hurry and didn't want to slow down to see what it was running from. — David McAfee

Within a few moments the last of day became the first of night, a magic as peculiar and welcome as any other. — Gregory Maguire

Summer weather, like being in love,is a philosopher's stone which turns our ordinary days to gold. But not the whole day ... For it is never the whole day, never all our life which is transformed in any happiness, but only the exquisite moments. — Nan Fairbrother

A person who is loved, even when weakened, becomes strengthened and happy. — Marcel Scharfstein

Your systems are perfectly designed to get the results that you are getting. — Stephen Covey

When we become aware that we do not have to escape our pains, but that we can mobilize them into a common search for life, those very pains are transformed from expressions of despair into signs of hope. — Henri Nouwen

Funny you mention my dinner parties when I have just suggested that inviting close friends over to share a meal with candlelight and wine at your table could be a form of religious experience for some people. To me it's a form of sacrament. — Sally Quinn

If I catch a fish before the sun rises, I have connected myself again to the deep hum of the planet. If I turn on the television because I cannot stand an evening alone with myself or my family, I am admitting my citizenship with the living dead. — Pat Conroy

I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering. — Walter Isaacson