Gradsky Alexander Quotes & Sayings

What sort of person you grow into should not be achieved by default, and often that's exactly what happens to kids. I see literature as a method of guidance, information, and contemplation, and consider it the greatest compliment possible when a reader tells me that a book of mine really made him/her think. — Wendelin Van Draanen

Honesty does not mean saying all we think or feel. Many of our thoughts and feelings are only with us for a minute. They are not always the truth. — Anonymous

One should never spurn a penitent criminal: in his despair he may become twice as much a criminal as before. — Mikhail Lermontov

Perhaps the most radical thing we followers of Jesus can do in the information age is treat each other like humans-not heroes, not villains, not avatars, not statuses, not Republicans, not Democrats, not Calvinists, not Emergents-just humans. This wouldn't mean we would stop disagreeing, but I think it would mean we would disagree well. — Rachel Held Evans

The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all. — Lou Gehrig

All my life, I've been trying to adhere to the surface of your city... — Bhanu Kapil

I never read comics growing up. I didn't have money and I don't like to touch paper. — John McLaughlin

On the final day of 1999, an immaculately suited Jesus and a Bukowskiesque Devil warily circle each other through a series of sleazy bars and chilly law offices, trying to cut a deal that centers on Christ's PowerBook. This contains the biblical Seventh Seal: Unlock the file and the Judgment Day program will launch, and then all hell will break loose. — William Gibson

All sciences originated among the sons of Israel, the reason being the existence of prophecy among them which made their perfection in the sciences amazing. — Averroes