Ganzfried Family Tree Quotes

#1. It was the ruling King of Bhutan himself who, in the 1980s, set up a system that measured national advancement according to Gross National Happiness rather than Gross Domestic Product.

David Michie

#2. Well fine, then. I could send you out to win my favor. Possibly on a quest involving bringing a large mug of coffee and a doughnut. Or the wholesale slaughter of all my enemies. I haven't decided which.

Holly Black

#3. My dear old friend King George V told me he would never have died but for that vile doctor, Lord Dawson of Penn.

Margot Asquith

#4. How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.

Anton Chekhov

#5. The knowledgeable person lives with a question mark '?' and the man of awe and wonder lives with an exclamation mark.

Rajneesh

#6. The best way to do something is to do it without thought. That's real concentration.

Art Hochberg

#7. Life is too short to be the same person everyday.

Stephanie Perkins

#8. It was easier to do a friendly thing than it was to stay and be thanked for it.

Louisa May Alcott

#9. Nothing in life is easy. Not if it's worthwhile.

Anara Bella

#10. I'll never shake the hand of someone I might be fighting against in wartime.

David Wojnarowicz

#11. Even if it's a definition that feels oppressive to us, that oppression can be inspiring because it helps us push up against something while we're writing. Or if it's a definition that we want to defend and uphold, we are given a sense of the boundaries within which we can work.

John D'Agata

#12. At dinner members of the 8th enthusiastically told each other to pass the fucking salt, you fucking sack of shit, until Brahe told them to quit that goddamn shit, cocksuckers, because it got old pretty goddamn quick.

John Scalzi

#13. Not surprisingly, nondemocratic regimes by their nature are built around the restriction of individual freedom.

Patrick H. O'Neil

#14. I want you to know he's coming to the church before he comes FOR the church. He's gonna perfect the Church so the church can be the Image, and be him, and be his representation.

Paul Cain

#15. I think different musical collaborators bring out different qualities in my songs and I like that.

Conor Oberst