Granstaff Blm Quotes & Sayings

We grow our courage muscles like we grow our physical muscles, by using them. — Gloria Feldt

In a society so estranged from animals as ours, we often fail to credit them with any form of language. If we do, it comes under the heading of communication rather than speech. And yet, the great silence we have imposed on the rest of life contains innumerable forms of expression. Where does our own language come from but this unfathomed store that characterizes innumerable species?
We are now more than halfway removed from what the unwritten word meant to our ancestors, who believed in the original, primal word behind all manifestations of the spirit. You sang because you were answered. The answers come from life around you. Prayers, chants, and songs were also responses to the elements, to the wind, the sun and stars, the Great Mystery behind them. Life on earth springs from a collateral magic that we rarely consult. We avoid the unknown as if we were afraid that contact would lower our sense of self-esteem. — John Hay

I think politics is the biggest lever of change in India. — Nandan Nilekani

Hey, show up with an army of undead warriors to save the day, and suddenly you're everybody's best friend. — Rick Riordan

Amy wondered if Bonaparte could declare war on Miss Gwen alone without breaking his peace with England — Lauren Willig

There's simply anger over the accountability that Yelp brings and also this feeling of powerlessness because so much power is now being put in the hands of the consumer. But the important thing that gets lost with some of these business owners who are very upset with us is it's the whole picture that counts. — Jeremy Stoppelman

In Las Vegas, people know that the odds are stacked against them. On Wall Street, they manipulate the odds while you are playing the game. — John Ensign

An artist needs not so much an audience, as to feel a need to answer, a promise to respond ... a good feeling about his art. — Robert Pinsky

Maybe I was in love, but I was still me, after all. — Richelle Mead

There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge. — Banksy

At the dressing table, every woman has a chance to be an artist, and art, as Aristotle said, completes what nature left unfinished. — Sophia Loren

I was trying to sound like some of the people I was listening to, like Mala and Coki. — James Blake