Granking Quotes & Sayings

The thought [behind the Golden Notebook] was that to divide off and compartmentalize living was dangerous and led to nothing but trouble. Old, young, black, white, men, women, capitalism, socialism: these great dichotomies undo us, force us into unreal categorization, make us look for what separates us rather than what we have in common. — Doris Lessing

Do you know ... what I think is a great pity? It is this: that we have all become such skeptics that we hardly believe what our pious grandmothers told us. — Isak Dinesen

In person, I wear jeans and flip-flops, and people are so shocked. They tell me I look so much younger than they expected. — Christina Hendricks

I wish I could tell you how lonely I am. How cold and harsh it is here. Everywhere there is conflict and unkindness. I think God has forsaken this place. I believe I have seen hell and it's white, it's snow-white. — Elizabeth Gaskell

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. — Saint Augustine

Things change, constantly, as they should. And with change comes the need for adaptation, for fresh thinking, and, sometimes, for even a total reboot - of your project, your department, your division, or your company as a whole. — Ed Catmull

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy-they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they made.... — F Scott Fitzgerald

Over-eating is the addiction choice of carers, and that's why it's come to be regarded as the lowest-ranking of all the addictions. — Caitlin Moran

THE STRONGEST MAN ALIVE IS THE MAN WHO CAN HOLD HIS PEACE IN THE FACE OF EVERY AGGRAVATION, AND THE WEAKEST ONE IS HE WHO CANNOT HOLD THAT PEACE! — Werner Schroeder

No matter how much I fought him or gave in to him in turns, I couldn't fuck away my fears. — Cassie Alexander

I'm fortunate that I'm making a living at it now because I'm not equipped to do anything else. — Sonny Rollins