Josephin Geroux Quotes & Sayings

Those who start wars never fight them, and those who fight wars never like them. — Michael Franti

When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint - understand what he is trying to do - nine times out of ten he is trying to do right. — Harry S. Truman

I love and I hate. I desire one thing only. — Virginia Woolf

The fishhook catches the fish; the truth catches the lie; the death catches the life; the love catches the hate! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

And Toronto's own Sergio Trujillo has redone his choreography totally, showing all the comical invention that we know he's capable of. — Richard Ouzounian

We've surpassed ourselves now, we're exploring terrain beyond the limits of merely human understanding. Sometimes its contours, even in conventional space, are just too intricate for our brains to track; other times its very axes extend into dimensions inconceivable to minds built to fuck and fight on some prehistoric grassland. So many things constrain us, from so many directions. The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain-stem imperative of self-interest. Subtle and elegant equations predict the behavior of the quantum world, but none can explain it. After four thousand years we can't even prove that reality exists beyond the mind of the first-person dreamer. We have such need of intellects greater than our own. But we're not very good at building them. — Peter Watts

Yeah, well, I don't really want to kick you when you're down, but mostly for some crazy reason"- her face tilts up and she gives me this shy little grin-"I think you might be worth it. — Trish Doller

We have always felt the sympathy of the world, but we would prefer the respect of the world to sympathy without respect. — Anwar Sadat

thee times their size — Stephanie Marks

There are always those times when you're going to be down. It's how you step through it that makes you the person you are. — Mike Krzyzewski

Don't waste time asking God to keep you from doing things. Don't do them. — Oswald Chambers

What in the fuck is happening? he said to the darkening house. The first time in his life he'd ever uttered a swear; he'd earned the word, he felt. The house did not answer him. — Lauren Groff

The idea of having faith in anything to a homeless teenager is just asinine. — J.L. Mac

Chil', there things in this world you don't know about yet. We your family, that never change. Even when you find a white boy and gets married, we still your family. Mama always your mama, Belle always your Belle."
I stopped crying. "What about Papa and Ben?" I asked hopefully.
"They watch out for you just like now. Abinia" - Mama looked into my eyes - "you on the winnin' side. One day might be you lookin' out for us. — Kathleen Grissom