Joan Dye Gussow Quotes

#1. When you disarm your subjects, however, you offend them by showing that either from cowardliness or lack of faith, you distrust them; and either conclusion will induce them to hate you.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#2. Whilst people wholeheartedly talk wrongly about you openly, wholeheartedly talk rightly to God in silence and in faith! He knows everything! He sees everything! He hears everything! And He has the very right answer to everything!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#3. Nature does not pile up 1000 hogs, then hope for the best.

Joan Dye Gussow

#4. Words have value; what is of value in words is meaning. Meaning has something it is pursuing, but the thing that it is pursuing cannot be put into words and handed down.

Zhuangzi

#5. Every foreign policy of every major nation involves reason, common sense, carrots and sticks. You can't have all carrots and no sticks.

Fred Thompson

#6. If it's necessary to join a caucus and get a committee assignment, I'll do it.

Angus King

#7. The States are great. I'd like to go just to see life, see things and hear people talk. It's like a circus where different acts go on at the same time.

Jim Capaldi

#8. No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.

Pablo Picasso

#9. Only through the hottest fires, whispers the radio, can purification be achieved. Only through the harshest tests can God's chosen rise.

Anthony Doerr

#10. If we want to keep farmers in business, it's time for all of us, ordinary citizens and policy makers alike, to begin learning how that might be done. Sharing the Harvest is a great place to start.

Joan Dye Gussow

#11. Running my fastest not from my past. Running from those who have hurt me in it. And, they can't catch me anymore. I escaped from the land of make believe.

Jill Telford

#12. As for butter versus margarine, I trust cows more than chemists.

Joan Dye Gussow

#13. A person who won't read books has no advantage over one who can't read books.

Mark Twain

#14. Movie characters rarely get to think out loud or talk very much about their emotions. Instead they have to, very briefly, show their feelings through their action or through dialog.

Seth Grahame-Smith

#15. In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.

Audre Lorde