Graymoor Retreat Quotes & Sayings

We are the greatest power in the world. If we behave like it. — Walt Whitman Rostow

But certain souls cohere. It's rare but possible. But it takes two powerful wills to make it so. — Ann Brashares

A hot guy who fucks sluts in the nightclubs a companion for life does not make. — Penelope Fletcher

That the way to achieve higher standards of living for all is through science and technology, taking advantage of better tools, methods and organization. — Charles E. Wilson

We find sects and parties in most branches of science; and disputes which are carried on from age to age, without being brought to an issue. Sophistry has been more effectually excluded from mathematics and natural philosophy than from other sciences. In mathematics it had no place from the beginning; mathematicians having had the wisdom to define accurately the terms they use, and to lay down, as axioms, the first principles on which their reasoning is grounded. Accordingly, we find no parties among mathematicians, and hardly any disputes. — Thomas Reid

Can you allow yourself to be impaled on the present moment? — T. Scott McLeod

Concealing what is shameful to you will never lead to anything of value. — Karl Ove Knausgaard

I almost rented a house by an architect named Schindler, but I couldn't afford it. It was a jewel. — Parker Stevenson

I'm a big fan of pantomime storytelling, being an animator. — John Lasseter

I think, honestly, that the word 'indie' is a false gimmick. 'Independent' used to mean a movie that was financed outside corporate Hollywood, but a lot of what gets called independent these days is totally produced within that system. And there's nothing wrong with that. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Paul Bearer has more chins than a Chinese phone book! — Jerry Lawler

The only way to beat the competition is to stop trying to beat the competition — W.Chan Kim

Music is 'significant form,' and its significance is that of a symbol, a highly articulated, sensuous object, which by virtue of its dynamic structure can express the forms of vital experience which language is peculiarly unfit to convey. Feeling, life, motion and emotion constitute its import. — Susanne Katherina Langer

Love can transform us. It can be a healing force or a disaster, a tidal wave, a tornado. It can burn and scar us or heal our scars. It can be the ghost that haunts us, or the best friend who reads our every thought. Love may arrive like an angel of mercy, a fairy with raven wings or a hairy beast that will tear us apart limb from limb, kill and savor us down to the bones. — Francesca Lia Block

A society which denies the heart its role becomes, in very short order, a heartless society. — Russell Kirk