Grant Notley Quotes & Sayings

You're going to have to speak up for yourself - and I learned that after always being, for lack of a better word, crapped on. — Keke Palmer

River had never lost his cool, not since I'd know him. That was the thing about River. He was calm. Calm as a summer's day. Calm as a gentle nap in the sun. Even when girls were fainting and men were slitting their throats in front of you. — April Genevieve Tucholke

Soon after my degree, in 1958 I went to the United States to enlarge my experience and to familiarize myself with particle accelerators. I spent about one and a half years at Columbia University. — Carlo Rubbia

Treat others as you would be treated. Devote yourself to that, for there's no more direct approach to Humanity. — Mencius

Every single time you set up a comparison between yourself and someone else, you lose, no one wins. — Clinton Kelly

Each day, we're given many opportunities to open up or shut down. The most precious opportunity presents itself when we come to the place where we think we can't handle whatever is happening. It's too much. It's gone too far. We feel bad about ourselves. There's no way we can manipulate the situation to make ourselves come out looking good. No matter how hard we try, it just won't work. Basically, life has just nailed us. — Pema Chodron

All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate. — Nicolas Chamfort

Next to the pastoral came the agricultural life. When you add to that the manufacturing phase of development, society begins to fill out, and needs but wings to fly, and commerce is its wings. — Henry Ward Beecher

I think in American culture, we put value on economic success but tell people you don't have to be economically successful to be happy. — John Hodgman

1883 ... The teaching of the Church has elaborated the principle of subsidiarity, according to which a community of a higher order should not interfere in the internal life of a community of a lower order, depriving the latter of its functions, but rather should support it in case of need and help to co-ordinate its activity with the activities of the rest of society, always with a view to the common good. — The Catholic Church

Expressing gratitude for the miracles in your world is one of the best ways to make each moment of your life a special one. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your loved ones! — Wayne Dyer

Agatha had declared that her friendship to Georgie still existed, as if it was a living, breathing thing, something that came to life the moment it happened and didn't just go away because they no longer acknowledged it. — Sarah Addison Allen

Truth is cathartic, a way of keeping the trees pruned. The truer you can be the better it is because it simplifies life and love. — Diane Von Furstenberg

Ability is of little account without opportunity. — Lucille Ball