Granyards Quotes & Sayings

Neither blindness nor ignorance corrupts people and governments. They soon realize where the path they have taken is leading them. But there is an impulse within them, favored by their natures and reinforced by their habits, which they do not resist; it continues to propel them forward as long as they have a remnant of strength. He who overcomes himself is divine. Most see their ruin before their eyes; but they go on into it.1 Leopold von Ranke — Joachim Fest

If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don't have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works. — Noam Chomsky

My mom had a huge video camera that I would always play with, and there is home video of me, like, with the camera letting her know, 'I want to do stuff like this when I grow up.' — Rick Gonzalez

I am the cause of the energy crisis. — Kris Kidd

The ineffable would not be ineffable if it could be described. — Dean Koontz

I'm such an antsy type of person. I can't write in a room without other people around. I write in coffee shops. — Paul Haggis

It's very important to me to be an American poet, a Jewish poet, a poet who came of age in the 1960s. — Edward Hirsch

Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning ... — C.S. Lewis

Who else but a lover retains the ability to wound the other person with such passion, such precision? And who else but that lover has the capacity to heal what he or she has done? — A. Manette Ansay