Geraldine Weiss Quotes

#1. It may be healthier to eat beer and franks with cheer and thanks, than to eat sprouts and bread with doubts and dread.

John Robbins

#2. Solzhenitsyn writes: 'Shalamov's experience in the camps was longer and more bitter than my own, and I respectfully confess that to him and not me was it given to touch those depths of bestiality and despair toward which life in the camps dragged us all.

Anonymous

#3. Difference between a lie and a story is that a story utilizes the trappings and appearance of truth for the interest of the listener as well as of the teller. A story has in it neither gain nor loss. But a lie is a device for profit or escape. I

John Steinbeck

#4. Aspen would not have the satisfaction of breaking my heart anymore. He'd put me here, and I would just have to take advantage of it.

Kiera Cass

#5. I called the doctor on the telephone, Said doctor, doctor, please, I got this feeling, rocking and reeling, Tell me, what can it be? Is it some new disease? - The Sylvers

Stephen King

#6. Wars are facts we cannot fuck away, Perry; nor laugh away, either.

Angela Carter

#7. For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and the solution was wisdom, self-discipline, and virtue. For the modern, the cardinal problem is how to conform reality to the wishes of man, and the solution is a technique.

Peter Kreeft

#8. While they were virtual roller coasters of emotion, you needed to be calm, always.

Kristin Hannah

#9. It's a very frightening time when something as basic as due process is seen as somehow radical.

John Cusack

#10. I hated childhood / I hate adulthood / And I love being alive.

Mary Ruefle

#11. A man can be a Christian or a patriot, but he can't legally be a Christian and a patriot - except in the usual way: one of the two with the mouth, the other with the heart.

Mark Twain

#12. The greatest gift that anyone can give anyone is LIFE. And the greatest sin a person can do is to take away that life. NEXT to that, all rules and religions in the worldare secondary, mere words and beliefs that people CHOOSE to believe and KILL and HATE by.

James McBride

#13. A straight line can readily be drawn among each of the two series of points corresponding to maxima and minima, thus showing that there is a simple relation between the brightness of the variables and their periods.

Henrietta Swan Leavitt