Goteros Quotes & Sayings

Your soul has a single basic function-the act of valuing. — Ayn Rand

The lucky ones are just born dead. — Chuck Palahniuk

Our culture believes strong individuals can transcend their circumstances. I myself don't much enjoy books by Hardy or Dreiser or Wharton, where the outside world is so strong, so overwhelming, that the individual hasn't a chance. I get impatient, I keep feeling that somehow the deck is stacked unfairly. That is the point, of course, but my feeling is that if that's true, I don't want to play. I prefer to move to another table where I can retain my illusion, if illusion it be, that I'm working only against only probabilities, and have a chance to win. Then if you lose, you can blame it on your own poor playing. That is called a tragic flaw, and like guilt, it's very comforting. You can go on believing that there really is a right way, and you just didn't find it. — Marilyn French

Being a good human being is very easy: Be a good son, a good husband, a good parent and a good citizen. — Siddharth Katragadda

When I was young, I had two older sisters, and since I was the youngest in my family, my mom took me around with her all the time. I was forever with her when she was having coffee in the middle of the afternoon with her three sisters. And they would talk about men. I absorbed a lot of that. — Richard LaGravenese

Nought's had, all's spent, where our desire is got without content. — William Shakespeare

The Swedish engineer who invented the zip fastener made a greater intellectual leap than many scientists do in a lifetime. — Martin Rees