Gus Speth Quotes & Sayings

Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting. — John Ortberg

Oh, sweet little huggles," Mama said. "Remember what Pampy used to say when he wanted to be brave? — Lenora Riegel

I have a cousin who is a spiritual advisor for Native veterans in Canada, so I'm very familiar with the history of Natives in the military. And growing up as an American Indian myself, the story of Ira Hayes is one that is often told. — Adam Beach

[I]n Africa I was a member of a family - of a sort of family that the people of your culture haven't known for thousands of years. If gorillas were capable of such an expression, they would tell you that their family is like a hand, of which they are the fingers. They are fully aware of being a family but are very little aware of being individuals. Here in the zoo there were other gorillas - but there was no family. Five severed fingers do not make a hand. — Daniel Quinn

There are hundreds of thousands of Scots who acknowledge English, Irish or Welsh parts of their very being. Lives and destinies are similarly intertwined in Catalonia and Spain, in Ukraine and Russia. — Michael Ignatieff

Why do we consider that just because people have more money, they do not deserve it? It is totally wrong. They deserve everything they have earned. — Anthea Turner

It's kind of interesting to be a director who is all of a sudden being an actor playing an agent. This is my whole world! — Mark Rydell

But isn't being alone closer to the truest version of ourselves, when we're not linked to another, not diluted by their presence and judgments? We form relationships with others, friends, family. That's fine. Those relationships don't bind the way love does. We can still have lovers, short-term. But only when alone can we focus on ourselves, know ourselves. How can we know ourselves without this solitude? — Iain Reid

You can't get anywhere flying under the radar. — Grant Cardone

Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future. — David Mitchell

There's no debt limit in the Constitution. — James Surowiecki

The reality is that Israel is a multi-ethnic, multireligious society, and it makes no sense to insist as a precondition for peace that its neighbors recognize it as 'the Jewish state.' — Kai Bird

The strength of soul; love, hope and faith. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It is certain that an atom of goodness on the path of faith is never lost. — Rumi

Judges don't age; time decorates them. — Enid Bagnold