Top 13 Gansberg Slab Quotes
#1. The bullet we're running from is almost never the one that hits us.
Toby Barlow
#2. When the opposite of your prayer occurs, your prayer hasn't been ignored; it's been considered & refused for your ultimate good.
C.S. Lewis
#3. Unfortunately, for the vast majority of us, a vast majority of the time, we surrender our true autonomy to this illusion of agency. I'm as guilty as anybody, and I write about it in a book. I'm not condemning anybody.
Douglas Rushkoff
#4. I think illusion is one of the most interesting things that I've found to think about. Just look at yesterday, and what you were doing, and how important it was, and how nonexistent it is now! How dreamlike it is! Same thing with tomorrow. So where are we living?
Laurie Anderson
#5. I don't know why I write really depressing songs. I'm a kind of melancholy guy, I suppose. But I figure I'm about normal.
Townes Van Zandt
#6. A premium in the oil price of somewhere between 10 to 15 dollars a barrel reflects this heightened anxiety.
Daniel Yergin
#8. There is something silly about a man who wears a white suit all the time, especially in New York.
(on Tom Wolfe)
Norman Mailer
#9. Since my stroke, I have begun to see so many miracles all around me. I look out of the window in my room: verdant grass, silver-tipped oak leaves, tall palm trees gentle swaying as they reach to the sky, masses and masses of roses. All colors, so many shapes, exquisite fragrances.
Kirk Douglas
#10. Pity and charity may be at root an attempt to propitiate the dark powers that have not touched us yet.
Marilynne Robinson
#11. to elevate the race of humankind. To endow each individual with sovereignty over his own heart and to lift the state as a whole to govern itself.
Steven Pressfield
#12. In most sports they have a physical effect on your performance, in swimming only psychological. If you worry about what your rival is doing, you take your mind off what you are doing and so fail to concentrate on your performance.
Louis Fabian Bachrach Jr.
#13. Give up your dreams; you'll accomplish more without sleep.
Bauvard
