Graciany Catalog Quotes & Sayings

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.
The family economy evades calculation in the gross planetary product. It's the only deal I know where, when you give more than you get, you aren't bankrupted - but rather, vastly enriched. — Lois McMaster Bujold

Read my lips: no new taxes. — George H. W. Bush

Remember that the key to the Discipline of study is not reading many books, but experiencing what we do read. — Richard J. Foster

It would be morally reprehensible not to tell the truth ... Everything I have written has stood the test of time. — Kitty Kelley

People use the word "natural" ... What is natural to me is these botanical species which interact directly with the nervous system. What I consider artificial is 4 years at Harvard, and the Bible, and Saint Patrick's cathedral, and the Sunday school teachings. — Timothy Leary

Can you even have human nature if you don't have the capacity to feel?" I ask.
"Do you mean on some kind of existentialist 'what are we if not the things we feel' kind of way?" I don't know what he means by existentialist. I say as much. He laughs. I entertain the idea of stabbing him for several minutes. — Ellis Adler

The human MIND seems to work best in the presence of reality. The brain that contains the problem probably also contains the solution. IF the conditions are right, the huge intelligence of the human being surfaces. IDEAS seem to come from nowhere & sometimes STUN US. — Nancy Kline

Waiting for nothing, that is what kills the heart of a man, isn't it? — Gregory David Roberts

No one answers. It feels as if I'm not there, as if I'm as invisible as the nicotine they're inhaling. — Ida Lokas