Gpsorak Quotes & Sayings

We started with that, basically to help kids, and then we created a pole vault school, which is part of the club and exists to this day. The club and school exist. — Sergei Bubka

The United States now has more prison inmates than full-time farmers. — Eric Schlosser

There are a lot of poems where I am questing for God. I don't think there is any finding of God. — Edward Hirsch

It's a risk, I suppose. But wouldn't you learn and grow regardless of what the result was? That would be a gain, even if playing in Ringestad were not."

Lorelin stepped lightly after her sister. "Don't just sit there, do something?"

Irisa sat on the low wall and patted the spot beside her invitingly. "Except there's also: don't just do something, sit there!"

Lorelin laughed. How did you tell which wisdom-saying to follow? — J.M. Ney-Grimm

How little one knows, really, about anything! And how grossly incurious one remains about so many things, what an enormous number of intrinsically astonishing achievements one merely takes for granted! — Aldous Huxley

A good meal soothes the soul as it regenerates the body.
From the abundance of it flows a benign benevolence. — Frederick W. Hackwood

I don't eat anything that runs away from me. — Russell Simmons

As thy days, so shall thy strength be. — Jane Goodall

Know what I mean? Eh, eh, Nudge nudge, Say no more? — Eric Idle

No one chooses the part they play. We can but tackle what the world throws at us and try to make it a better place. — Gary Meehan

To realise the relative validity of one's convictions and yet stand for them unflinchingly is what distinguishes a civilised man from a barbarian. — Isaiah Berlin

Hate is such a strong emotion. Much more powerful than indifference. But those who burn with hate can also love just as intensely. Can't they? When you hate
or love
do you do so with all your heart? So much that it feels as if you might die from it? — Morgan Rhodes

Scriptural determinism" sounds like an arcane academic paradigm, but it is deployed by nonacademics in a consequential way. After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, as Americans tried to fathom the forces at work, sales of several kinds of books rose. Some people bought books about Islam, some bought books about the recent history of the Middle East, and some bought translations of the Koran. And of course some bought more than one kind of book. But people who bought only translations of the Koran were showing signs of scriptural determinism. They seemed to think that you could understand the terrorists' motivation simply by reading their ancient scriptures - just search the Koran for passages advocating violence against infidels and, having succeeded, end the analysis, content that you'd found the essential cause of 9/11. — Robert Wright

L.A. is a city that has given me great support for skating. — Kim Yuna

An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting. — Agnes Repplier