Greneker Catalog Quotes & Sayings

Wine is a turne-coate (first a friend, then an enemy).
[Wine is a turncoat, first a friend, then an enemy.] — George Herbert

They made a science out of people?" she said. "What a crazy science that must be."
"Mr. Z — Kurt Vonnegut

To live according to the spirit is to love according to the spirit. — Saint Francis De Sales

Summing it Up ... "Where's a good place for dinner?" I asked. "There's the Brasserie Lipp on the Avenue St. Germaine," she said, "or La Coupole in Montmartre." "Not La Coupole," I said. "I've been there before. That's the place that's crowded and noisy and smells bad and everybody's rude as hell, isn't it?" "I think you just described France," she said. — P. J. O'Rourke

This time of night, the sky was flung wide open, stars spread like a story across the horizon. — Jodi Picoult

A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself. — Seneca The Younger

Justice is justly represented blind, because she sees no difference in the parties concerned. She has but one scale and weight, for rich and poor, great and small. — William Penn

I will tell you something my father once told me. The difference between a brave man and a coward is very simple. It is a problem of love. A coward loves only himself ... The brave man loves other men first and himself last. (From Meyer's The Son) — Phillipp Meyer

My mother is very, very smart and commands respect because she has a lot of respect for herself. — Jared Leto

I have goals and aspirations, and I believe that you can go after your dreams, and it can work if you have someone there that's supporting you. — Tia Mowry

For example, a set of twenty-five studies involving five hundred astrologers examined the average degree of agreement between astrological predictions. In social science, such as in psychology, tests that have less than o.8 (i.e., 8o percent) agreement level are considered unreliable. Astrology's reliability is an embarrassingly low o. I, with a variability around the mean of o.o6 standard deviations. This means that there is, on average, no agreement at all among the predictions made by different astrologers. — Massimo Pigliucci

What twisted people we are. How simple we seem, or at least pretend to be in front of others, and how twisted we are deep down. How paltry we are and how spectacularly we contort ourselves before our own eyes, and the eyes of others ... And all for what? To hide what? To make people believe what? — Roberto Bolano

Einstein's gravitational theory, which is said to be the greatest single achievement of theoretical physics, resulted in beautiful relations connecting gravitational phenomena with the geometry of space; this was an exciting idea. — Richard P. Feynman

Nationalist movements often overlapped with economic and class issues: Rumanian and Ruthenian peasants, for example, challenged their Hungarian and Polish landlords. — Margaret MacMillan

The lazy flesh disappeared. Our muscles became hard as steel, refined on the anvil of an experienced blacksmith. Even our faces changed. Among other things, we learned to ride, to fence, to take a fall. And these we learned for life. — Ernst Junger