Famous Greyhound Quotes & Sayings

Your thoughts and your actions are fixed forever in their terms. That is slavery. I, on the other hand, brought you freedom. Freedom is expensive, but the price is not impossible. So, fear your captors, your masters. Don't waste your time and your power fearing me. — Carlos Castaneda

Often writers cast their words out prophetically, as a sorceress might cast a spell, and many times when the words return to you, enclosed between covers, your phantom is so fully fleshed out in its own persona, you don't recognize your own creation. — Sarah Ban Breathnach

I usually control the environment I'm in, but my control is very quiet and subtle. — Michael Caine

Steep curving stone stairs led to a square library on the floor above. The 4,000 books in the library were mostly collected between 1710 and 1730. ... For a moment I was tempted to ask to be locked in. If I could skim ten books a day for a year, I would be able to get a sense of most of what David Hume might have read in 1730 -- an age when it still might just have been possible to read everything. — Rory Stewart

I'm Creole, and I'm down to earth. — Boozoo Chavis

I calculated the amount of time I spent with my father during my entire life ... the total amount of time I had with him, if you add up the hours, was about two months. My father was a busy man ... we had very few opportunities to really sit down and talk as father and son. — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing. — Epictetus

I wish I could hold your hand outside this room, go for a walk, sit on a patio, watch the world go by. — Leylah Attar

The rejection that we all take and the sadness and the aggravation and the loss of jobs and all of the things that we live through in our lives, without a sense of humor, I don't know how people make it. — Marlo Thomas

The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people. — Jamie Lee Curtis

The first few months of my life of every year are in total retreat. I don't see anybody except my husband and my dog, I don't talk to anybody, and I just write. — Isabel Allende

I wanted to find something I could do at home. I sat down with a friend and made a list of all the things I could try, and one of them was writing a novel. — Sara Sheridan

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor. — Victor Hugo

For me personally, as much as I don't understand my mom and dad and as much as I feel sorry for them sometimes, I can't help but love them very much. — Stephen Chbosky

I think if you're going to master policy, especially world affairs, you've got to know history. — Charles Krauthammer