Gradwell Sears Quotes & Sayings

The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school [in the 1960s] may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were men of honor who had given their lives to scholarship. Today in the elite schools, honor and ethics are gone. — Camille Paglia

Censorship is the mother of metaphor. — Jorge Luis Borges

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly. — Anton Chekhov

One is oneself a fine consequence. — Henry James

Every time a new nation, America or Russia for instance, advances toward civilization, the human race perfects itself; every time an inferior class emerges from enslavement and degradation, the human race again perfects itself. — Madame De Stael

Lying is about controlling someone else's reality, hoping that what they don't know won't hurt you. — Neil Strauss

She vied so fast, protesting oath after oath,
that in a twink she won me to her love.
O, you are novices. 'Tis a world to see
How tame, when men and women are alone,
A meacock wretch can make the curstest shrew. — William Shakespeare

Your employees know each other better than they know you. — Ben Horowitz

If hate, the antonym of love, is one strong word that we all know it exist but despise, why do people like playing with LOVE like it's nonentity? — PK Gyewu Akrofi

There was something nice about a man who was absorbed by a good book. — Maya Rodale

A steel door clapped open as a guard stepped from the bulletproof viewing station across the hall. "Adams!"
"That you?"
"I told you, I don't know-"
The cop pointed straight at him. "Jeffrey Adams! Front and center!"
The black man helped him rise to his feet. "Ain't everybody gets called back from the pit, man. Question is, what are you gonna do when you find out who you are? — Davis Bunn

In the Bhagavad-Gita, a dialogue ensues in the middle of a battlefield, symbolizing the battlefield of life which we are fighting through our illusions. — Frederick Lenz