Finnian Gerety Quotes

#1. Technical devices or processes which receive intensified investment during cold or hot wars spread through societies contagiously once their monopoly by the state has been undermined.

Kode9

#2. I think that the practice of religion allows one to discover emotional and psychological truth of a kind not available in the secular world.

Jay Parini

#3. History is strewn thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill, but a lie, well told, is immortal.

Mark Twain

#4. Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob.

Ida B. Wells

#5. But nobody in one lifetime could read more than a fragment of what was here, this broken labyrinth of words, this shattered, interrupted story of a people and a world through the centuries, the millennia.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#6. It is a known fact that the sheep that give us steel wool have no natural enemies.

Gary Larson

#7. Sometimes I do readings and people can't stop laughing, but I'm reading about pretty tragic things. I think Soviet humor is a desperate humor, rather typical of very different nations, of Jewish people, Ukrainians, and of course, Russians. It's despair - just keep laughing, until you are dead.

Alina Bronsky

#8. Every idiot who goes about with a 'Merry Christmas' on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.

Charles Dickens

#9. Help me to see new ways of being as I release old ways of seeing.

Iyanla Vanzant

#10. Animals have personalities like people and must be studied.

Walt Disney

#11. I don't remember everything that happened, and I'm looking forward to the tale. But I know, I feel, that it was good. Even if I did die. It was a damn excellent dream.

Tessa Gratton

#12. Though the darkest of clouds may hide the summit I will persist until it is reached

Saul Delino

#13. Genuine mental health would involve a balanced interplay of both modes of experience, a way of life in which one's identification with the ego is playful and tentative rather than absolute and mandatory, while the concern with material possessions is pragmatic rather than obsessive.

Fritjof Capra

#14. Privately, I felt that living in that privileged environment, where her emotions ran unchecked, had made her oversensitive and unstable.

Minae Mizumura