Gwyllyn Quotes & Sayings

When many people are killed, they should be mourned and lamented. Those who are victorious in war should follow the rites of funerals. — Laozi

All new learning looks at first like chaos. — Adrienne Rich

The wind industry has made major strides over the past two decades, and they have proven their industry to be efficient and self-sustainable. There is no need for the taxpayer to continue to subsidize a wind start-up tax credit. — James Lankford

If Elvis ..is the definition of rock, then rock is remembered as showbiz ... It becomes a solely performative art form, where the meaning of a song matters less than the person singing it. It becomes personality music ... if Dylan ... becomes the definition of rock, everything reverses. In this contingency, lyrical authenticity becomes everything: Rock is galvanized as an intellectual craft, interlocked with the folk tradition ... The fact that Dylan does not have a conventionally "good" singing voice becomes retrospective proof that rock audiences prioritized substance over style ... — Chuck Klosterman

Success is like a camera. Focus and concentrate on the objective. See your most important goal image for success, and ignore distracting details. Develop your pictures. If they don't turn out, keep at it. Take more shots and be persistent. Focus on making success clearly happen. Visualize optimum success and use perseverance. — Mark LaMoure

Don't fuck it up. She's independent and she's been doing on her own for so long she'll never be the girl to tell you how much she needs you. But she'll show you how much she wants this. I've known her since we were twelve, and you're it for her. — Christina Lauren

Gujarat is the fourth state in the world where we have a separate climate-change department. — Narendra Modi

If I make a dollar and out of every dollar I'm taxed at 50, half, at 50 cents, I have to give, isn't that like enough? — Jon Lovitz

What is humanity? To feel pain at the sorrows of our neighbours, to feel humiliated at the humiliation of fellow-beings. — Idries Shah

Be a good girl," she said. "I hope you'll be a good sister to Laura. I know you try to be." I nodded. I didn't know what to say. I felt I was the victim of an injustice: why was it always me who was supposed to be a good sister to Laura, instead of the other way around? Surely my mother loved Laura more than she loved me. — Margaret Atwood

It is easy to acknowledge, but almost impossible to realize for long, that we are mirrors whose brightness, if we are bright, is wholly derived from the sun that shines upon us. — C.S. Lewis

Life itself is not the miracle.
that pain should be so constant,
that's the miracle - — Charles Bukowski

I can swim I'm not bad, but not great. — Paula Radcliffe

I have dreamed of touching you — J.R. Ward