Got The Gall Quotes

#1. My wardrobe is like a garden oh, I don't know how I've got the gall! My wardrobe is just like a wardrobe it's not like a garden at all!

Attila The Stockbroker

#2. The more we frequent men, the blacker our thoughts; and when, to clarify them, we return to our solitude, we find there the shadow they have cast.

Emil M. Cioran

#3. All the honey that can be gathered from the flowers of this world has less sweetness than the vinegar and gall of Jesus Christ our Lord.

Ignatius Of Loyola

#4. Love can be angry ... with a kind of anger in which there is no gall, like the dove's and not the ravens.

Saint Augustine

#5. We spend much of our lives going about completely blind to reality, and yet we still have the gall to act victimized when it invariably catches up to us.

Nenia Campbell

#6. I do not propose to go on as I have been, feeding on the gall of my own grief. For you grieve, and yet you live, and are useful, and bring life to others.

Geraldine Brooks

#7. Writing is a job, a craft, and you learn it by trying to write every day and by facing the page with humility and gall. And you have to love to read books, all kinds of books, good books. You are not looking for anything in particular; you are just letting stuff seep in.

Stephen Dobyns

#8. In 1978, Elizabeth Blackburn, working with Joe Gall, identified the DNA sequence of telomeres. Every time a cell divides, it gets shorter. But telomeres usually don't. So there must be something happening to the telomeres to keep their length in equilibrium.

Carol W. Greider

#9. The beautiful souls of the world have an art of saintly alchemy, by which bitterness is converted into kindness, the gall of human experience into gentleness, ingratitude into benefits, insults into pardon.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#10. My greed for agonies has made me die so many times that it strikes me as indecent to keep on abusing a corpse from which I can get nothing more.

Emil M. Cioran

#11. Love has both its gall and honey in abundance: it has sweetness to the taste, but it presents bitterness also to satiety.

Plautus

#12. Melting pot Harlem-Harlem of honey and chocolate and caramel and rum and vinegar and lemon and lime and gall. Dusky dream Harlem rumbling into a nightmare tunnel where the subway from the Bronx keeps right on downtown.

Langston Hughes

#13. The best of myself, that point of light which distances me from everything, I owe to my infrequent encounters with a few bitter fools, a few disconsolate bastards, who, victims of the rigor of their cynicism, could no longer attach themselves to any vice.

Emil M. Cioran

#14. No way. I would rather lick a toad. I would let a wicked old hag bake me into gingerbread before I married this son of a bas-ilisk who had the gall to look amused while I hyperventilated.

Betsy Schow

#15. HELENA: Doctor Gall, does Radius have a soul? DR. GALL: I don't know. But there's something rather ugly about him.

Anonymous

#16. Yesterday, Attorney General John Ashcroft had surgery to remove his gall bladder. Doctors say the surgery was difficult because Ashcroft refused to take his clothes off.

Conan O'Brien

#17. And they have the gall to call it a law for public safety! We've got no cars, no gasoline, no guns, no men . . . It's clear they're determined to promote criminality. Enough. What can we do?" "If

Andrea Camilleri

#18. Because his basic idea that he got from the study of gall wasps is that everyone's sexuality is unique.

Bill Condon

#19. Remember what Lincoln said: 'A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.

Dale Carnegie

#20. Her heavy knives of defense against misery, regret, gall and hurt, she placed one by one on a bank where dear water rushed on below.

Toni Morrison

#21. I've belched a lot more since I had gall bladder surgery. I don't know why.

Beth Ditto

#22. Middle-age should be shot. Things about it gall me. First, that those younger despise the thought of getting old, and, hence, me. Second, that those older despise the thought of me being younger, and, hence, me. So here I am, pressed from both sides, forced to wear blinders - FULL SPEED AHEAD!

Chila Woychik

#23. His face is livid, gaunt his whole body, his breath is green with gall; his tongue drips poison.

John Quincy Adams

#24. A drop of honey gathers more flies than a gallon of gall

Abraham Lincoln

#25. For my part, life is so many things I don't care what it is. It's not my affair to sum it up. Just now it's a cup of tea. This morning it was wormwood and gall. Hand me the sugar.

D.H. Lawrence

#26. From being at art college, I've always hated people that have the gall to think that they're being incredibly different when they're doing something in a very acceptable way, something safe that they've seen someone else doing.

Sade Adu

#27. Every word I put down, I put down with tears, with bitter blood, with sour gall, well mixed and blended with shame and guilt.

V.C. Andrews

#28. Envy may justly be called "the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity;" it is the most acid fruit that grows on the stock of sin, a fluid so subtle that nothing but the fire of divine love can purge it from the soul.

Hosea Ballou

#29. Be hald, and your friends are many;
Be sad, and you lose them all.
There are to decline your nectared wine,
But all you must drink life's gall.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#30. The upbeat DHS report was some kind of high-water mark for government gall - a tough record to beat. After sitting back and watching the Cabal do all the work, and nearly succeed, Uncle Sam finally found a role for himself: proclaim victory and then stick a flag in it!

Mark Bowden

#31. Liver of blaspheming Jew, Gall of goat and slips of yew Slivered in the moon's eclipse, Nose of Turk and Tartar's lips, (30) Finger of birth-strangled babe Ditch-delivered by a drab, Make the gruel thick and slab. Add thereto a tiger's chaudron, For the ingredients of our cauldron.

William Shakespeare

#32. I don't think I'm known for my gifts - I'm known for my gall. I don't want to be just a famous person - I'm too old.

Sebastian Horsley

#33. Call it insensitivity or a passion for remorse, I have never undertaken to rescue what little Absolute this world contains.

Emil M. Cioran

#34. Truly, a command of gall cannot be obeyed like one of sugar. A man must require just and reasonable things; if he would see the scales of obedience properly trimmed. From orders which are improper, springs resistance, which is not easily overcome.

Giambattista Basile

#35. The Church used to absolve sinners; today it has the gall to absolve sins.

Nicolas Gomez Davila

#36. No wonder of it: sheer plod makes plough down sillion
Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear,
Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion.

Gerard Manley Hopkins