Clint Eastwood Gran Torino Quotes & Sayings

In the movies, every crazy old fart needs a cool old car. Jack Nicholson drove a spiffy yellow 1970 Dodge Challenger two-door in 'The Bucket List.' In 'Gran Torino,' the cranky pensioner played by Clint Eastwood not only owned a 1972 GT Sport, he also used to build cars like that at the Ford plant. — Richard Corliss

No one will calmly and quietly submit to bear the cross except those who have learned to seek their happiness beyond this world. — John Calvin

The light that shines through the windows of the eyes and ears - if those windows did not exist, the light would not stop. It would find other windows to shine through.
If you bring a lamp before the sun, do you say, "I see the sun by means of this lamp"? God forbid! If you did not bring the lamp, the sun would still shine. What need is there for a lamp? — Rumi

You may ask, why not simply call this literature Christian? Unfortunately, the word Christian is no longer reliable. It has come to mean anyone with a golden heart. And a golden heart would be a positive interference in the writing of fiction. — Flannery O'Connor

People think the Bible is too complicated for the average person to understand. People tend to be wrong. It's too complicated for the unsaved person, yes, it's foolishness to him. But for those who are in Christ, it's a magnificent journey of simplicity. Depth, richness, but simplicity. It's the fact that the natural man can't believe that life with Christ is so simple that cause the great "complexity" argument. Stop, take a breath, and believe that it's as simple as it appears. — Alan De Jager

blissful as ignorance, — Brian Greene

Compliance" is just a subset of "governance" and not the other way around. — Pearl Zhu

He who trusts, however, in an oath on God,
His Protection also in He; in need, He shows the Path. — Guru Gobind Singh

In 'Gran Torino,' I play a guy who's racially offensive. But he learned. It shows that you're never too old to learn and embrace people that you don't understand to begin with. It seems like nobody else got that message, I guess. — Clint Eastwood

Most people develop their social conscience when young, during that brief period between leaving school and deciding that injustice isn't necessarily all bad, and — Terry Pratchett

You have to live with the people to know their needs, and you have to live with God to know how to solve them. — John C. Maxwell

I don't see anything wrong with being comfortable with my own skin. — Christina Aguilera

Filling life exceedingly is called ominous. — Laozi

A public school-educated stockbroker, who wants to shrink the state and let the markets rip, who reinvented himself as a man of the people and convinced millions of disillusioned working-class voters he was on a mission to smash the rich elite he belonged to. — Brian Reade

Dreamers can't be tamed. — Paulo Coelho

I don't know whether to worship at your feet or spank the living shit out of you. — E.L. James