Categorised Provisional Gnm Quotes & Sayings

As the comedian Emo Phillips once said, "When I was a child, I used to pray to God for a bicycle. But then I realized that God doesn't work in that way - so I stole a bike and prayed for forgiveness! — Daniel C. Dennett

Women ... have long been discouraged from the awareness and forthright expression of anger. Sugar and spice are the ingredients from which we are made. We are the nurturers, the soothers, the peacemakers, and the steadiers of rocked boats. — Harriet Lerner

There are choices you make not by planning but (as you make your shadow) by being where you are — Benjamin Taylor

sounding like distant thunder. I got the children to sleep but — Mary Mann Hamilton

Sometimes fear and dread are superior to tedium. — Lisa Lutz

It is such a comfort to nestle up to Michael Angelo Sanzio Raphael when one is in trouble. He is such a grand tree. He has an understanding soul. After I talked with him and listened unto his voice, I slipped down out of his arms. — Opal Whiteley

If you forge a Carl Andre, it's just another Carl Andre. It's not like a Vermeer. — Carl Andre

Gran swatted his butt and shooed him away out the door. "Now, we can get down to business." She rubbed her hands together like a villain. — Shelly Crane

It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen. — Forest Whitaker

But anything that can be called "rigor" is lost exactly where the things become interesting and non trivial. — Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov

O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name. — Alexander Pope

Love is primarily giving. It's an action that leads to a feeling, not a feeling first. — Timothy Keller

The Mayans were right, as it turns out, when they predicted the world would end in 2012. It was just a select world: the G.O.P. universe of arrogant, uptight, entitled, bossy, retrogressive white guys ... Instead of smallpox, plagues, drought and Conquistadors, the Republican decline will be traced to a stubborn refusal to adapt to a world where poor people and sick people and black people and brown people and female people and gay people count. — Maureen Dowd

Have you ever stared stark failure in the face, young man? The trick is, to outstare it! — Angela Carter