Gracious Plenty Quotes & Sayings

Don't make the extremely foolish mistake of thinking that winning is everything. If there is one person that I would really like to smack, it is the person who said, "Winning is not the main thing. It's the only thing." That's awful. Taking part is the main thing. Doing your best is the main thing. There is no shame in not winning. The shame is in not trying to win, which is of course another matter altogether. Above all, be gracious in defeat. Believe me, you'll get plenty of chances to put this into practice, so you might as well
start working on it now. — Bill Bryson

Well, that's certainly ... adequate," I told him, burying my face in his chest. I knew immediately I'd picked the wrong word.
"Adequate?" He took my hand, placed it on the part in question. It immediately began to stir. He moved my hand on it, and I obligingly circled it with my fingers. "This is adequate?"
"Maybe I should have said it's a gracious plenty?"
"A gracious plenty. I like that," he said. — Charlaine Harris

I think that people need to become more educated about money. We need to stop creating systems that benefit only the most-cutthroat sharks. — Nicholas Jarecki

Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good book, resting unopened in its slot on a shelf, full of majestic potentiality, is the most comforting sort of intellectual wallpaper. — David Quammen

Someone else should be avenging her. Somebody who wasn't so stupid. — Rosamund Hodge

It has been my experience that if we make the effort to listen to people when we meet them, and work to get to know them a little, it is then easy to find something likeable in practically anyone. — Bryant H. McGill

Things that are jailable crimes on one end of that spectrum become speeding tickets on the other. We find white people on the jail end and black people on the speeding ticket end, but for the most part ... well, for the most part, you know what I mean. That winking understanding we all share about who gets the book thrown at him and who doesn't, that's where American racism has gone: unspoken and hidden, but bureaucratized and automated, and therefore more powerful than ever. — Matt Taibbi

We moved from wondering to answering, which has not served us well at all. — Richard Rohr

Disrespect is the weapon of the weak — Alice Miller

Why did my husband have to die?"

I didn't answer her; because I'd realized a question like this was predicated on an illusion: the illusion that war can ever have a happy outcome. It's always someone's husband. It's always someone's son. It's always someone's brother. It's always someone's friend. — Rose Christo

Dying is like making love, except you don't get naseous afterwards. — Woody Allen

The U.K. has to keep investing in new technology, skills, and infrastructure to keep pace with international competition. — Ridley Scott

Desire is the uneasiness a man finds in himself upon the absence of anything whose present enjoyment carries the idea of delight with it. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

You just walked in on the Holy Feast of I Swear, Daddy, I'll Kiss the Next Man That Walks Through That Door. It was the only way to make them stop." He blinked. "Seriously. — Seanan McGuire

I have read that, on the average, the Japanese are getting taller, but at the moment they seem to be about the same height as American junior-high-school students, only with fewer guns. — Dave Barry

I don't try to please when I play. I try to cure. — Ornette Coleman