Grantly Budgen Quotes & Sayings

You and I will always be friends."
"Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that. — Oscar Wilde

Some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up and touch everything. If you never let that happen, then you just accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you. — E.L. Konigsburg

But we acted pre-emptively in Kosovo in 1999 to stop Milosevic from doing what he was doing and increasingly doing the ethnic cleansing in a systematic way. — Lord Robertson

Literature is inexhaustible, with every book a homage to infinity — Bertrand Russell

Baseball players tend to have something like 20 good years in them and then around their mid-thirties they aren't in the same shape as the young guys in the league and kind of aren't worth as much. Then they retire before 40. And they are left floating adrift in the middle of the ocean. — Michael Cera

Poor land, poor land, what do you mean
to the heart that moves in me?
Poor love, poor love, poor wife of mine,
why do you weep so bitterly?

(from Retribution book 2, I) — Alexander Blok

Bet on yourself. — Sophia Amoruso

Bertha divined what an enormous wrong had been wrought against the world in that the longing for pleasure is placed in woman just as in man; and that with women that longing is a sin, demanding expiation, if the yearning for pleasure is not at the same time a yearning for motherhood. — Arthur Schnitzler

Watch what you say and do because little eyes are watching you. — Reba McEntire

There were a number of impractical shoes, stilettos mostly, beautiful and strange. — Emily St. John Mandel

When you get a jean for a larger girl, you have to have them tailored for you. Tailoring is indeed everything. — Jill Scott

A story? No. No stories, never again. — Maurice Blanchot

Sometimes I feel like tap-dancing, screeching, unscrewing light bulbs, pulling curtains, combing hair, doing knee bends, handstands and turning somersaults out there. — Ilie Nastase

No one ever plans on hurting someone else, it just happens. — Bethany Lopez

God relentlessly offers his grace to people who do not deserve it, or seek it, or even appreciate it after they have been saved by it. — Timothy Keller