Nathan Keffer > Nathan's Quotes

“You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of football team, or some nuclear weapons, but in the very least you need a beer.”
― Frank Zappa

“I want a beer. I want a giant, ice-cold bottle of beer and shower sex.”
― Nora Roberts, Chasing Fire

“If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

“Fall in love with someone
who tastes like adventure
but looks like
the calm, beautiful morning
after a terrible storm”
― Nikita Gill

“You are a dangerous collection of all my favourite things. An old soul, a heart of gold and hands that make my body sing.”
― Nikita Gill

“The Sun and the Moon

Aim for a love
that reminds you
of the devotion
the sun has to the moon.
Whether she is in fractions
or she is whole,
he still shrouds his intense light
in the darkness of the night.
To give her the entire sky,
without judgment,
so she can shine in any way she wants to.
You deserve someone
who adores you
on the days you are
in broken fragments too.
You deserve someone
who lets you glow
in every way
you need to.”
― Nikita Gill, Wild Embers: Poems of Rebellion, Fire and Beauty

“How do you go back to being strangers with someone who has seen your soul?”
― Nikita Gill

“Do not allow me to forget you”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Of Love and Other Demons

“A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“In what language does rain fall over tormented cities?”
― Pablo Neruda, The Book of Questions

“What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.”
― Geoffrey Chaucer

“The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.”
― Geoffrey Chaucer, The Parliament of Birds

“If gold rusts, what then can iron do?”
― Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales

“Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained”
― Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales

“Capitalism emphasizes the utility of capital. Permaculture Economics emphasizes the stewardship of Capital.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, Principles of a Permaculture Economy

“It's unwise to waste resources, and it's also unwise to waste capacity. Every system should maximize utilization.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“An economy should be regenerative by design. That's what a permaculture economy is.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr