5830 Granite Quotes & Sayings

I think a lot of young aspiring writers get misdirected; they think 'I ought to write this, even though I enjoy reading that'. What you have to do is write what you enjoy reading. — Jeffery Deaver

Justice can only be dispensed when you have all the facts in front of you. — Julian Baggini

The idea that we're somehow centrally important to the planet's existence is pretty comical - although I'd like us to be. — Dave Matthews

I am obviously a striker who likes to score a lot of goals and have done that in every team I have been with. — Luis Suarez

Our Cuba policy didn't make much sense during the Cold War and makes even less sense now. — Stephen M. Walt

To listen fully means to pay close attention to what is being said beneath the words. You listen not only to the 'music,' but to the essence of the person speaking. You listen not only for what someone knows, but for what he or she is. Ears operate at the speed of sound, which is far slower than the speed of light the eyes take in. Generative listening is the art of developing deeper silences in yourself, so you can slow our mind's hearing to your ears' natural speed, and hear beneath the words to their meaning. — Peter Senge

How distant I am from people when I am with them, and how close when they are far away. — Khalil Gibran

We all know you're beautiful, Scott. — Becca Fitzpatrick

A person is never entirely holy or entirely sinful. — Hermann Hesse

I have impossible standards. — Kathryn Hahn

He was puzzled by his mood. Despite the beauty of his surroundings, he found it curiously disconcerting. The art was almost too good to be true. What was it saying about humanity, and how much was the Renaissance culpable of creating the myth of individual rather than collective achievement? Was this the beginning of the desire for individual fame and recognition that contradicted Christian humility and shared responsibility; licensing the modern notion of ambition and selfish aspiration? On — James Runcie

Thus it is that our faith and trust in our Heavenly Father, so far as this mortal experience is concerned, consists not simply of faith and gladness that He exists, but is also a faith and trust that, if we are humble, He will tutor us, aiding our acquisition of needed attributes and experiences while we are in mortality. We trust not only the Designer but also His design of life itself, including our portion thereof! — Neal A. Maxwell

In this they have the support of Blake, a man so sensitive to any trace of "Natural Religion" that he is said to have blamed some verses of Wordsworth's for a bowel complaint which almost killed him. — Geoffrey H. Hartman