Henry Gondorff Quotes & Sayings

Negative words are powerful boomerangs so be careful what you say about people and yourself. — Mary J. Blige

It's kinda hard to be optimistic, When your homies lying dead on the pavement twisted. — Tupac Shakur

Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary exile from ourselves and our own past. — John Thorn

Millions of Americans each year use our national forests to go hiking, fishing, hunting, camping, swimming, horseback riding, and canoeing. — Ric Keller

Mothers have need of sharp eyes and discreet tongues
when they have girls to manage — Louisa May Alcott

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed. — William Temple

Science is a victim of its own reductive metaphors: 'Big Bang,' 'selfish gene' and so on. Richard Dawkins' selfish gene fitted with the Thatcherite politics of the time. It should actually be the 'altruistic gene,' but he'd never have sold as many books with a title like that. — Charles Jencks

Whether we like it or not, each of us is constrained by limits on what we can do and feel. To ignore these limits leads to denial and eventually to failure. To achieve excellence, we must first understand the reality of the everyday, with all its demands — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

There's nothing entertaining about watching goons hurl venomous slurs at congressmen like the civil rights hero John Lewis and the openly gay Barney Frank How curious that a mob fond of likening President Obama to Hitler knows so little about history that it doesn't recognize its own small-scale mimicry of Kristallnacht. — Frank Rich