Gerline Norris Quotes

#1. Sometimes compromise is painful.

Madeleine M. Kunin

#2. To call the Form [of the Good] eternal is misleading: that something lasts forever does not render it any the better, any more than long-enduring whiteness is whiter than ephemeral whiteness.

Alasdair MacIntyre

#3. If you're the oldest in a large family, you tend to do everything yourself, particularly if you are the first American. You begin a habit or pattern that makes it easy to reject other help.

Pete Hamill

#4. His hands had been reddened, as all men's hands have been, in the slaying before the foundation of the world; now, if he chose, he would dip them again in the same blood. 'Mercy,' he groaned ...

C.S. Lewis

#5. My input for the first 16, 17 years of my life was AM radio, FM radio - pretty mainstream stuff. Rolling Stone was probably as edgy as it got.

Trent Reznor

#6. According, therefore, as this produce, or what is purchased with it, bears a greater or smaller proportion to the number of those who are to consume it, the nation will be better or worse supplied with all the necessaries and conveniencies for which it has occasion.

Adam Smith

#7. Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books

Stephen Fry

#8. When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.

John D. Rockefeller

#9. Children will learn far more by watching than by just listening.

Billy Graham

#10. With the strong bipartisan rejection of the Dorgan amendment today, the Senate cast a vote in favor of the U.S. working to knock down unfair trade barriers that hurt American business and farmers

Rob Portman

#11. And Barry Levinson is insanely funny. I don't know if you know this, not everyone does, but he and Craig T. Nelson were a comedy team back in the coffeehouse days of the late '60s.

Kevin Pollak

#12. Anything a person chases in life runs away.

Sherry Argov

#13. He reminded me of all the golden boys I'd known in my life- classically handsome and charmingly sure of his place at the very top of the heap, confident that the world was his and that he was safe in it, without ever having considered otherwise.

Cheryl Strayed

#14. There's a socialist bias to the consensus of the literary world: a '30s mentality that says factory workers are more worthy of our attention.

Jay McInerney