Zdrojewski Gerard Quotes

#1. the world is one great web, and a man dare not touch a single strand lest all the others tremble.

George R R Martin

#2. Turns out, it's pretty simple to win people over, especially in tense situations, if you're able to take their perspective and validate their feelings.

Dan Harris

#3. [Amy Carmichael's] great longing was to have a "single eye" for the glory of God. Whatever might blur the vision God had give her of His work, whatever could distract or deceive or tempt other to seek anything but the Lord Jesus Himself she tried to eliminate.

Elisabeth Elliot

#4. Lovers are commonly industrious to make themselves uneasy.

Miguel De Cervantes

#5. It is ridiculous to assume you can tax the people that are working and give the money (to people) who are not working and somehow this creates economy activity. You are destroying as much by taking from those who are working and creating.

Yaron Brook

#6. And every year the Pentagon bite of the federal dollar got bigger and bigger. In Reagan's eight years in office, military expenditure doubled from around $150 billion to $300 billion a year, until it represented nearly 30 percent of our overall annual budget and more than 6 percent of GDP.

Rachel Maddow

#7. I have an inability to enjoy things, but that's why we're in comedy. If we were happy, we wouldn't be funny, I guess.

Paul Feig

#8. I prefer to think about problems the way engineers do. If a valve doesn't work, they don't say, "Well, we must have valves, so let's try two valves." If a valve doesn't work, they say, "Well, what would work?" Their rule is, if it doesn't work, don't do it more, do something else.

Daniel Quinn

#9. The absolute worst thing a person can say about your pictures is, '"That's nice." It's the kiss of death.

Joe DiMaggio

#10. I'm an old-fashioned guy.

Demian Bichir

#11. Our statute books gradually became laden with gross, stereotyped distinctions between the sexes and, indeed, throughout much of the 19th century the position of women in our society was, in many respects, comparable to that of blacks under the pre-Civil War slave codes.

William J. Brennan

#12. Insanity is believing your hallucinations are real. Religion is believing that other peoples' hallucinations are real.

Dan Barker

#13. As soon as a woman is old enough to have an opinion and have a voice and be unafraid, she's very much encouraged by all sorts of people to crawl under a rock and die. And it's so weird. My crime is not dying.

Sarah Silverman

#14. So it's the greatest compliment in the world when people want to hear you sing. That means it feels good to them, so I keep doing it.

Shelby Lynne

#15. In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.

G.K. Chesterton