Grafs Reloading Quotes & Sayings

It is in times of superlative hardship that individuals live their epic adventures, stories that thrill, fascinate, inspire, and illuminate. — Laura Hillenbrand

If a fast doesn't include any sacrifices, then it's not a fast. The discomfort is where the magic happens. Life zips along, unchecked and automatic. We default to our lifestyles, enjoying our privileges tra la la, but a fast interrupts that rote trajectory. Jesus gets a fresh platform in the empty space where indulgence resided. — Jen Hatmaker

New York has a trip-hammer vitality which drives you insane with restlessness if you have no inner stabilizer. — Henry Miller

So few people read poetry. That's sad, isn't it? — Jerry Hall

Oh man, the Vengaboys are my guilty pleasure. — Kiesza

Illusions ... are simple facts, but they have been created by the mind, by the spirit, and they are one of the justifications of the new spatial configuration. — Georges Braque

Today I am bothered by the story of King Canute. ( ... ) The story is, of course, that he was so arrogant and despotic a leader that he believed he could control everything - even the tide. We see him on the beach, surrounded by subjects, sceptre in hand, ordering back the heedless waves; a laughing stock, in short. But what if we've got it all wrong? What if, in fact, he was so good and great a king that his people began to elevate him to the status of a god, and began to believe that he was capable of anything? In order to prove to them that he was a mere mortal, he took them down to the beach and ordered back the waves, which of course kept on rolling up the beach. How awful it would be if we had got it so wrong, if we had misunderstood his actions for so long. — Maggie O'Farrell

First of all, never buy a man a plasma TV until you're married. A lot of men once they have a plasma TV they don't need a girlfriend — Greg Behrendt

'LOL' is one of several texting expressions that convey nuance in a system where you don't have the voice and face to do it the way you normally would. — John McWhorter

I had very few skills. If I hadn't been a producer I'd been a failed actor. That would have been really disastrous. — Laura Ziskin

After a sleepless night, the people in the street seem automatons. No one seems to breathe, to walk, Each looks as if he is worked by clockwork: nothing spontaneous; mechanical smiles, spectral gesticulations. Yourself a specter, how would you see others as alive? — Emil M. Cioran

Palin seems to have forgotten that her poll ratings have plummeted since the summer of 2011. — Ron Fournier