Gillian Roberts famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • No matter how senior you get in an organization, no matter how well you're perceived to be doing, your job is never done. Every day, you get up and the world is changing; your customers are expecting more from you. Your competitors are putting pressure on you by doing more and trying to beat you here and beat you there.

  • In the darkest hour of winter, when the starlings had all flown away, Gretel Samuelson fell in love. It happened the way things are never supposed to happen in real life, like a sledgehammer, like a bolt from out of the blue. One minute she was a seventeen year-old senior in high school waiting for a Sicilian pizza to go; the next one she was someone whose whole world had exploded, leaving her adrift in the Milky Way, so far from earth she was walking on stars.

  • My daddy, Rev. A. D. King, my granddaddy, Martin Luther King, Senior - we are a family of faith, hope and love.

  • the apathy and inattention of the average citizen is beyond comprehension.

  • Hating requires caring. In which case, I couldn't possibly hate you.

  • The oppposite of love is not hate. Hate is just love gone bad. The actual oppposite of love is apathy. When you don't care a damn as to what happens to the other person.

  • Voter apathy is a civic abdication.

  • HIV infection and AIDS is growing - but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues.

  • We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.

  • I wanted to be with the men I admired rather than the Scottish Arts Council crowd, so I spent a lot of time in graveyards. You get less trouble from the dead.