George Gillespie Quotes
There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts of ignorance.
Quotes to Explore
-
I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
-
To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.
-
The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
-
What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
-
It's incredible what happens when you explain to kids what good food is - they get so excited! They go home and tell their parents... and they're excited to cook the recipes themselves in class.
-
These days... it's all vanilla sex for me.
-
I've got so many clothes; I can dress in any style.
-
When I was 5 or 6, I was messing around with the piano, and I listened to everything from Chopin to boogie-woogie.
-
If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.
-
I know not whether Laws be right,Or whether Laws be wrong;All that we know who lie in gaolIs that the wall is strong;And that each day is like a year,A year whose days are long.
-
Thus I pacified Psyche and kissed her,And tempted her out of her gloom.
-
...we like somebody who succeeds with such bad conscience, and who seems to wish that he had the nerve to be a failure or, better still, something to which the terms success and failure don’t apply-as when Mallory said, about Everest: 'Success is meaningless here.'
-
'When I was out in the bars drinking and fighting I was a little bit less of a peacemaker than I would be if I'd had a coupla hits of a joint and gone and laid down somewhere.'
-
We thus have a kind of see-saw: first, pure persuasion leading to the conversion of a minority; then force exerted to secure that the rest of the community shall be exposed to the right propaganda; and finally a genuine belief on the part of the great majority, which makes the use of force again unnecessary.
-
Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.
-
That all men are equal is a proposition which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.
-
It's one thing to talk about the redistribution of wealth. It's quite another thing to talk about the redistribution of power. That's more what interests me.
-
A man who has no mental needs, because his intellect is of the narrow and normal amount, is, in the strict sense of the word, what is called a philistine.
-
Honesty is always the best policy, even when it's not the trend.
-
All that I know is nothing - I'm not even sure of that.
-
When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies.
-
It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
-
Regardless of the staggering dimensions of the world about us, the density of our ignorance, the risks of catastrophes to come, and our individual weakness within the immense collectivity, the fact remains that we are absolutely free today if we choose to will our existence in its finiteness, a finiteness which is open on the infinite. And in fact, any man who has known real loves, real revolts, real desires, and real will knows quite well that he has no need of any outside guarantee to be sure of his goals; their certitude comes from his own drive.
-
There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts of ignorance.
