Grabsteins Deli Quotes & Sayings

We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them. — Alain De Botton

One of the main reasons that it is so easy to march men off to war is that each of them feels sorry for the man next to him who will die. — Ernest Becker

Respect your voice. Be a voice for those who do not have a voice. — Debasish Mridha

Because I have two houses, I invariably get immersed in a book and then discover it's at the other house. — Lois Lowry

God is not a person. God is an eternal principle. — Mahatma Gandhi

A nation will never be vanished by subjugation or oppression, unless they get used to. — M.F. Moonzajer

We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given. — Midge Decter

Every poet has a certain amount of "stuff." That's what you draw from for imagery. The more stuff you know well, not simply intellectually but sensually, emotionally, intimately, the wider the pool from which you draw. — Marge Piercy

There are significant relationships, of course, between wanting things and caring about them..The notion of caring is in large part constructed out of the notion of desire. Caring about something may be, in the end, nothing more than a certain complex mode of wanting it. However, simply attributing desire to a person does not in itself convey that the person cares about the object he desires. — Harry G. Frankfurt

If the majority of people were right, we'd be living in paradise. But we are not living in paradise, we are living in hell. What does it mean? That means the majority of people are wrong. So I never believed what people told me. — Marjane Satrapi