Grallochs Quotes & Sayings

A surgeon needs to be calm. Worry just wastes time. It — Brandon Sanderson

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. — Lao-Tzu

In the future we'll be able to mentally contact anybody we want, see whatever image we want. And when we don't like it, we'll just turn it off. — Michio Kaku

I enjoyed every bit of my swimming career. I think that's the most important advice - to enjoy what you do — Summer Sanders

There everything is tolerated: the government and the guillotine, religion and the cholera. You are always acceptable to this world, you will never be missed by it. What, then, is the dominating impulse in this country without morals, without faith, without any sentiment, wherein, however, every sentiment, belief, and moral has its origin and end? It is gold and pleasure. Take — Honore De Balzac

Think for a moment: what is the British equivalent of the U.S. Fourth of July, or even the French 14th of July for that matter? — Gordon Brown

The paradox is that by the time you get to be senior, the decisions that matter the most are the ones that would be best made made by people who are junior ... — Seth

He had been living in a down-town Y.M.C.A., but when he quit the task of making sow-ear purses out of sows' ears, he moved up-town and went to work immediately as a reporter for The Sun. He kept at this for a year, doing desultory writing on the side, with little success, and then one day an infelicitous incident peremptorily closed his newspaper career. On a February afternoon he was assigned to report a parade of Squadron A. Snow threatening, he went to sleep instead before a hot fire, and when he woke up did a smooth column about the muffled beats of the horses' hoofs in the snow ... This he handed in. Next morning a marked copy of the paper was sent down to the City Editor with a scrawled note: "Fire the man who wrote this." It seemed that Squadron A had also seen the snow threatening - had postponed the parade until another day. A week later he had begun "The Demon Lover." ... In — F Scott Fitzgerald

I mean, when you've got someone who actually cares about you, maybe loves you, you'd have to be a real asshole to throw it away, — Lauren Baker

I don't know how I'd made it seventeen years without kissing. It was the finest thing I'd ever known. Like stumbling into heaven. — Gwen Hayes