Bear Gryll Quotes & Sayings

How science dwindles, and how volumes swell,
How commentators each dark passage shun,
And hold their farthing candle to the sun! — Edward Young

Conflict sometimes produces results, but more often than not it produces confusion at the level of everybody on the same track. — Ciaran Hinds

No, I've never truly been a minister. — Little Richard

It was a little light, but she aimed it directly at the gloom of ignorance. — Maya Angelou

Consider that all these torments of body and soul are without intermission. Be their suffering ever so extreme, be their pain ever so intense, there is no possibility of their fainting away, no, not for one moment ... They are all eye, all ear, all sense. Every instant of their duration it may be said of their whole frame that they are 'Trembling alive all o'er, and smart and agonize at every pore.' And of this duration there is no end ... Neither the pain of the body nor of soul is any nearer an end than it was millions of ages ago. — John Wesley

I have a very ostrich mentality. I feel like I have my head in the sand so no one can see me. — Lupita Nyong'o

Old texts say many things. You say these things as though they are special
as if it is unusual for one person to see another in pain, and wish to help. As if, he says quietly, to do the extraordinary
or what you think is extraordinary
a person must be told to do so, by the Divine. — Robert Jackson Bennett

I swear to the gods that if you answer one more of my questions with a question, I am going to go all Tyson and bite your damned ear off ... — Nicole Peeler

Ottoman provinces were re-formed and cobbled together into states. The region was carved up with little regard to ethnic, religious, or territorial concerns. The flawed and cavalier treaties of World War I explain to a large degree why the Middle East remains unstable and angry today. Every Muslim schoolchild is taught this arc of history and resents it: Islam's golden era of the Arab caliphate, the Crusades, the Mongol devastation, the rise of the Ottomans, World War I, the carving up of the Middle East by Europe, and the poverty, weakness, and wars in the Muslim world of the last century. This is the basic and sad narrative taught at every mosque, and it has the benefit of being broadly accurate. — Richard Engel

Science may explain how humans came into being, but it has no answer to the slippery question of how humans should live. Only literature makes it possible to pose such questions in the first place. And if there is no answer, only literature can point to the impossibility of ever finding one. — Minae Mizumura

Oh good God! You stared at the frog, didn't you? — William Ritter

Three minutes, so I turned on the radio and of course it was a Tom Petty song - is there ever a time you turn on the radio and don't hear a Tom Petty song? - — Gillian Flynn

I don't want to ever, ever give that kind of pain to one living mortal. And I will not give that thought power in my life. That's my practice. — Caroline Myss

It seems to be Latin American destiny to always have the United States say 'amen. — Warren Eyster