Gotan Project Quotes & Sayings

Livvy noted there seemed some communal feeling between the married: any wife could be faintly rude to anyone else's husband. — Elizabeth Bowen

Trust thyself: [156] every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being. And we are now men, and must accept in the highest mind the same transcendent destiny; and not minors and invalids in a protected corner, not cowards fleeing before a revolution, but guides, redeemers, and benefactors, obeying the Almighty effort, and advancing on Chaos [157] and the Dark. What — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Just as we are what we eat, we are what we read. — Jason Merkoski

The less we understand of what our fathers and forefathers sought, the less we understand ourselves, and thus we help with all our might to rob the individual of his roots and his guiding instincts, so that he becomes a particle in the mass, ruled only by what Nietzsche called the spirit of gravity. — C. G. Jung

They think I'm going to be a schoolteacher but I'm going to be a poet. — Janet Frame

If it doen't make sense, you should find for the defense. — Johnnie Cochran

Man is truly born the time he dies. — Kedar Joshi

What's optimism? said Cacambo.
Alas, said Candide, it is a mania for saying things are well when one is in hell. — Voltaire

A constant tension exists between an individual's interests, personal needs, and skills, and what the organization requires of her. We've all asked ourselves, How much of my own agenda should I sacrifice in order to help the rest of the staff meet the company's goals? — Pat Heim

It's a sad thing not to have friends, but it is even sadder not to have enemies. — Ernesto Che Guevara

When we see the brain we realize that we are, at one level, no more than meat; and, on another, no more than fiction. — Paul Broks