Gershenson David Quotes

#1. I had thought about everything carefully before I had agreed to him. I had made every preparation, every calculation, except for those two essentials that could not be calculated; his heart and mine.

Jeanette Winterson

#2. Those of us in medicine don't help, for we often regard the patient on the downhill as uninteresting unless he or she has a discrete problem we can fix.

Atul Gawande

#3. In the end, I suspect, being female will do nothing for Sheba, except deny her the grandeur of genuine villainy.

Zoe Heller

#4. We do not fail to enjoy the fruit of the Spirit because we live in a sea of corruption; we fail to do so because the sea of corruption is in us.

Billy Graham

#5. All these people - both the Japanese and the Koreans - are fucked because they keep thinking about the group. But here's the truth: There's no such thing as a benevolent leader.

Min Jin Lee

#6. Yeah, he was. But hate doesn't care. Hate can turn anyone a little mental.

Cambria Hebert

#7. All human souls, never so bedarkened, love light; light once kindled spreads till all is luminous.

Thomas Carlyle

#8. But I love your feet only because they walked upon the earth and upon the wind and upon the waters, until they found me.

Pablo Neruda

#9. All the people in the late '80s and early '90s were really hell-bent on doing something for themselves, and they wouldn't take no for an answer. There was a lot of determination, and I was definitely part of that way of thinking.

Tracey Emin

#10. No one remembers her beginnings. Mothers and aunts tell us about infancy and early childhood, hoping we won't forget the past when they had total control over our lives and secretly praying that because of it, we'll include them in our future.

Rita Mae Brown

#11. There was a fellow called Smiley married Ann Sercomb, Lord Sawley's cousin. Damned pretty girl, Ann was, and went and married this fellow. Some funny little beggar in the Civil Service with an OBE and a gold watch. Sawley was damned annoyed.

John Le Carre

#12. Boys forget what their country means by just reading 'The Land of the Free' in history books. Then they get to be men. They forget even more. Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in books.

Jefferson Smith

#13. There was something peculiarly gratifying about shouting in a blind rage until your words ran out.

Cassandra Clare

#14. Hitler is the human catch-all for all other terrible humans.

Chuck Klosterman

#15. [Charles de Gaulle] has been abysmally careless, like a man running a bus over mountains, who forgot to equip it with good brakes.

Janet Flanner