Gerald Massey Quotes

There's no dearth of kindness In the world of ours; Only in our blindness We gather thorns for flowers.

Gerald Massey

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• I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Mind
  • Doubt
  • Regret

• It is something where I think that people need to take a step back and realize how bad these things we are doing really are for our ears. But nobody really thinks about it. We're playing shows every night with music in our ears. That's just the industry.

  

  Taylor Dye
  • People
  • Music
  • Bad

• The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.

  

  Dan Savage
  • People
  • Men
  • Mistake

• All the terrorists are basically migrants.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Terrorists
  • Basically

• I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • World
  • Good
  • Party

• I crave attention and adventure.

  

  Eddie Cibrian
  • Attention
  • Adventure
  • Crave

• We say that our objective is to conquer complete independence, to install a people's power, to construct a new society without exploitation, for the benefit of all those who feel themselves to be Mozambicans.

  

  Samora Machel
  • People
  • Power
  • Society

• I've been through a lot. I've thought a lot about life, and I've spent a lot of time studying history and science.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Life
  • Time
  • History

• I don't tweet because I don't need another creative venue. I don't need another form for self-expression. I don't need another way to get my thoughts out to people. I have one. I'm good.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Good
  • Thoughts

• Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Weak
  • Self-Esteem
  • Your

• Mount Everest: throughout my early life, she was cold and there.

  

  Harper Lee
  • Life
  • She
  • Cold

• Rank beliefs not according to their plausibility but by the harm they may cause.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • May

• p. 97-98: As quoted in: S.P. Sector (‎1997). A Study of Issues Relating to the Patentability of Biotechnological Subject Matter. Footnote 51.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Study

• How completely, how thoroughly he has stolen my child. I have never even tried to forgive him.

  

  Octavia E. Butler

• We are the mimics. Clouds are pedagogues.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Clouds

• The essential difference, which we meet in entering the realm of spirit and mind, seems to hang round the word 'Ought.'

  

  Arthur Eddington
  • Mind

• Here is a list of fearful things:The jaws of sharks, a vulture's wings,The rabid bite of the dog's of war,The voice of one who went before.But most of all the mirror's gaze,which counts us out our numbered days.

  

  Clive Barker
  • War
  • Dog
  • Mirror

• I go to bars and restaurants, and I sit and I eavesdrop on people and I watch people in shopping centers and, you know, I read the newspapers and I talk to the Trenton cops, and I just get a lot of information that comes in that somehow turns into a book.

  

  Janet Evanovich
  • People
  • Book
  • Shopping

• We get 150 notices a week for seminars.

  

  Marilyn Ferguson

• Fortunately, for the first 20 years in my career, I didn't have any other responsibilities outside of myself. I didn't have a wife and kids, so I could afford to sort of barely scrape by, to do theater.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Kids
  • Career
  • Wife

• If I buy something new - a piece of clothing, a tie, a shirt, a suit - something old has to go. That's the way I avoid clutter, crammed closets and drawers. It keeps things in balance, and it really works.

  

  Matt Lauer
  • Balance

• Is there any more encouraging sign than to see an Indian, who has never been to a university, like our friend Mr. Asutosh Dey here, for example, carrying out original work and finding it recognized by the foremost societies of the world?

  

  C. V. Raman
  • World
  • Work
  • Friend

• Thoughts are fine when you don't confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Problem

• There's no dearth of kindness In the world of ours; Only in our blindness We gather thorns for flowers.

  

  Gerald Massey
  • World
  • Kindness
  • Dearth