Gurmanis Quotes & Sayings

Being single has its ups and downs, and being in a relationship has its ups and downs. It depends on how you balance it and how you handle your problems within your relationship. — R. Kelly

Chekyns upon soppes" (basically chicken on cinnamon toast) from the 1545 early Tudor cookbook A Propre Newe Booke of Cokerye: Chekyns upon soppes. Take sorel sauce a good quantitie and put in Sinamon and suger and lette it boyle and poure it upon the soppes then laie on the chekyns. — Dan Jurafsky

Must we, under the happy hope of a false tranquility, sacrifice to the people in power the public welfare, and under vain pretence of preserving the peace, abandon the empire to robbers who would plunder it — Claude Adrien Helvetius

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life, than on the nature of those events themselves. — Wilhelm Von Humboldt

I wanted this world to still. I wanted to fix it and be fixed within it. But everything was on the move, the clouds, the wind ... — Hisham Matar

I devote my life in service of humanity. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Choosing to love, in spite of all its complexities, is the only freedom there is. — Chriscinthia Blount

Do you think that I am an old man? I could prove to this congregation that I am young; for I could find more girls who would choose me for a husband than can carry any of the young men. — Brigham Young

I wanted to save myself from that drug that contaminates the body and veins and not from the other drug, you know that drug that enters through your eyes and your private area, the one that settles into your heart to screw it up, that damn drug that naive people call love. The stupid drug that's just as dangerous and deadly as the one that you find on the streets wrapped up in little packages. — Jorge Franco

As sheer casual reading matter, I still find the English dictionary the most interesting book in our language. — Albert J. Nock

Court an idea as long as you like, but be careful before marrying it. — Arturo Graf

It's a different sort of love taht puts up with illness. Old love. — Alexander McCall Smith

Moses became America's true founding father because he evangelized action; he justified risk. He gave ordinary people the courage to live with uncertainty. — Bruce Feiler

I like to style myself, as my first job out of university was working at 'Vogue' magazine in NYC, and I grew up attending the collections with my mother, so I have a particular aesthetic, which is classic glamour with a twist. — Carly Steel