Jake Gittes Quotes & Sayings

Except for the con men borrowing money they shouldn't get and the widows who have to visit with the handsome young men in the trust department, no sane person ever enjoyed visiting a bank. — Martin Mayer

Sometimes beings come forth from that realmless realm. Light incarnates and wanders around through the samsara, kind of looking at itself in various countless forms. We call beings that come from that realm "enlightened". — Frederick Lenz

How does a mortal make answer to what his or her kind are capable of? Does each of us, soldier or no, reach a point when all that we've seen, survived, changes us inside? Irrevocably changes us. What do we become, then? Less human, or more human? Human enough, or too human? — Steven Erikson

It is one of the paradoxes of journalism: The more servile a reporter is toward his sources, the more authoritative he can appear in print. — Andrew Ferguson

What you're seeing is a loss of confidence in institutions and their legitimacy because they are not seen as delivering. It's hardly a surprise that it's producing a degree of paralysis. Politics becomes very reactive and it's hard to deal with the bigger issues. — Jonathan Wood

Out of this city marched armies that seemed to be great, and afterwards were when glory had magnified them.
As the years went by, an occasional soldier returned, and with a foreign trace to his speech, told tales of what had happened to him in places called Ituzaingo or Ayacucho.
These things, now, are as if they had never been.
Martin Fierro — Jorge Luis Borges

What good is my parents' wealth and education and upbringing if I'm not contributing to the world? — Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Everyone's journey is completely different. — Jeremy Piven

Surround yourself with doers. Be around people who demonstrate thier boldness. — Wayne Dyer

At all events, rather less is known about Lucy than is generally supposed. It isn't even actually known that she was a female. — Bill Bryson