Graines De Lin Quotes & Sayings

But he knew life, its foulness as well as its fairness, its greatness in spite of the slime that infested it, and by God he was going to have his say on it to the world. Saints in heaven - how could they be anything but fair and pure? No praise to them. But saints in slime - ah, that was the everlasting wonder! That was what made life worth while. To see moral grandeur rising out of cesspools of iniquity; to rise himself and first glimpse beauty, faint and far, through mud- dripping eyes; to see out of weakness, and frailty, and viciousness, and all abysmal brutishness, arising strength, and truth, and high spiritual endowment. — Jack London

And it just made me realize again because I have know it for some time, that you never get comfortable in this. No matter who you are. No matter who ... how successful you are. — Dabney Coleman

Trying to impress her with the most interesting thing you can say will only make you look desperate and keep you awkwardly in your head — Nick Sparks

The interesting thing about that is one of the greatest critics of socialism and leftwing writings was Robert Michels who wrote a series of essays called "The Iron Law of Oligarchy" and in these essays he discusses how no matter what sorts of freedoms are advertised or put into a society structure, that all societies, all form of governments - whether they be a Roman republic, whether they be a democracy, whether they be a Russian communist system, whatever, a tribe ... a tribal council - all of the continuously, throughout the ages, have all converted back into an oligarchy. — Immortal Technique

They reminded me that Christianity isn't meant to simply be believed; it's meant to be lived, shared, eaten, spoken, and enacted in the presence of other people. They reminded me that, try as I may, I can't be a Christian on my own. I need a community. I need the church. — Rachel Held Evans

If me and Mike Dirnt are in the same room, it's not quite right if he's not on stage with me. — Billie Joe Armstrong

Give as much you can possibly give, even if, or when, you do not receive. For the more you give, the more the heart gets 'bigger' and 'stronger'. So, never for one moment you hold back from giving, until the heart has nothing left to give again. — Ufuoma Apoki

In physics a system is said to have a symmetry if its properties are unaffected by a certain transformation such as rotating it in space or taking its mirror image. For example, if you flip a donut over, it looks exactly the same (unless it has a chocolate topping, in which case it is better just to eat it). — Stephen Hawking

Will isn't my little bastard assistant. Will is Pellinore Warthrop's little bastard assistant. — Rick Yancey

The American nation, in its march onward and upward, can not publicly choke the intellectual and political activity of half its citizens by narrow statutes. — Victoria Woodhull

Industry need not wish. — Benjamin Franklin

No comedy should be longer than 90 minutes. There's no such thing as a good long joke. — John Waters

I perceived with a sudden novel vividness the extraordinary folly of everything I had ever done. — H.G.Wells