Grahame Leslie Quotes & Sayings

People assume that somehow fame and wealth will keep mortality at bay. — Moby

The mutual fund industry and small investors are very relentless and very unforgiving if people don't perform. — Ron Chernow

I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of putting on makeup and a costume, I have to invariably do it in the same order every time, even if I only did it by chance the first time round. — Ian McKellen

Let not the wise disturb the mind of the unwise in their selfish work. Let him, working with devotion, show them the joy of good work. — Anonymous

I'm not sure if you even want me around or if you just feel sorry for me. I'm not sure of anything. — Sarah Ockler

Most kids who grow up in Alaska and spend a fair degree of time in the wilderness, grow up being pretty self-reliant. You have to be, in order to survive all the animals and cliffs and crevasses and rapids - at some point, your brain has to kick [out of] that childish daydream world and start making I-want-to-live decisions. — Leigh Newman

Oversimplifying somewhat, honoring your word as we define it means you either keep your word (do what you said you would do and by the time you said you would do it), or as soon as you know that you will not, you say that you will not to those who were counting on your word and clean up any mess caused by not keeping your word. — Werner Erhard

What I wear is pants. What I do is live. How I pray is breathe. — Thomas Merton

Grief is the emotional contract of divorce — Cheryl Nielsen

He was not much of a nature-worshipper, but he perceived that nature here was certainly at her best and liveliest. He gave her, as it were, full marks and a nod of approval, feeling that she would do very nicely as a background to his satisfying emotions — James Hilton

As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that's rampant there. — Ben Mendelsohn

Family is a place where love never ends. — Debasish Mridha

The antidote to busyness of soul is not sloth and indifference. The antidote is rest, rhythm, death to pride, acceptance of our own finitude, and trust in the providence of God. — Kevin DeYoung

It makes me very nervous and poorly,to be thwarted so in my own family, and to have neighbours who think of themselves before anybody else. However, your coming just at this time is the greatest of comforts, and I am very glad to hear what you tell us, of long sleeves. — Jane Austen

A language is a dialect that has an army and a navy. — Max Weinreich