Gouws Quotes & Sayings

Children have the unforgivable habit of growing up — Bjarne Reuter

Some people say: "There is no God; because, if there was a God, God would stop all the suffering." Nonsense! God is oblivious to suffering. God is beyond suffering. That's what makes God, God, by definition. — Frederick Lenz

The world is a divine dream, from which we may presently awake to the glories and certainties of day. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you want to be a good lair, tell people what they want to hear. (From Hot dogs under The Dakota) — Johannes Gouws

He who calls in the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; and he who profits by a superior understanding raises his powers to a level with the height of the superior standing he unites with. — Edmund Burke

I'd tried so hard to make a perfect, untouchable life for myself. But trouble finds you. Tragedy finds you. And we keep trying anyway. We hope for the best. We believe we can make something for ourselves- something good that will last- even though, at the exact same time, we know we can't. — Katherine Center

Climate change is a global commons problem. — Ottmar Edenhofer

Learn from the beasts the physic of the field. — Alexander Pope

Actors in general have some place in them that can be sensitive and easily damaged: not damaged in a bad way, but insecurity, because that's what it breeds, especially in females and female-lead types. — Kaitlin Doubleday

Size matters in fiction, but so does lack of size. Everything else being equal, fat novels tend to be perceived as serious, very thin ones as more honest, more real. Writers address these age-old expectations by filling their big books with philosophy and cramming their little ones with feeling. — Walter Kirn

Reconciliation with our enemies is simply a desire to better our condition, a weariness of war, or the fear of some unlucky thing from occurring. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally. — Oscar Wilde