Gurland Bayonne Quotes & Sayings

All life on Earth is subject to the rumbles and rockings of the parent stucture which has no control over the disastrous effects of its stresses and strains on whatever thrives on its surface. The ambitions and dreams of men are irrelevant to this planetary giant which pursues its own way in its own manner. Man is its child, tenant and still, to this date, its captive. — Jack Kirby

For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves. — Francis Bacon

All good things in life are fragile and easily lost — Khaled Hosseini

The more we count the blessings we have, the less we crave the luxuries we haven't. — William Arthur Ward

Just like Pagliacci did, I try to keep my surface hid. Smiling in the crowd I try, but in a lonely room I cry. — Smokey Robinson

If someone knows who he is, really knows, then he doesn't need to hate. — Madeleine L'Engle

Beneath all the chatter and the liturgy runs a fierce nostalgia for the literary myths of the past, for the gigantic figures of Dickens and Joyce, Hemingway and Faulkner. A writer can't even aim at that kind of aura today. But it's that yearning for imagined greatness that drives the whole literary enterprise. Plus the publishers' desperation to manufacture a bestseller to pay the bills. The idea of greatness is a marketing tool. See Franzen. — Tim Parks

You have to accept and agree with this short notice that "having a dream is different from fulfilling a dream". "To have a dream" is just a bargaining process; "fulfilling it" is the real purchasing hour! — Israelmore Ayivor