Grapped Quotes & Sayings

Opening the book is a quotation from the National Conference of Catholic Bishops that sums up the Prager-Telushkin view: It was Judaism that brought the concept of a God-given universal moral law into the world ... The Jew carries the burden of God in history [and] for this has never been forgiven. — George Gilder

I had my bully, and it was excruciating. Not only the bully, but the intimidation I felt. — Robert Cormier

That the crowning miracle of all the miracles summed up in the New Testament, after the miracle of the blind seeing, and the lame walking, and the restoration of the dead to life, was the miracle that the poor had the Gospel preached to them. That while the poor were unnaturally and unnecessarily cut off by the thousand, in the prematurity of their age, or in the rottenness of their youth - for of flower or blossom such youth has none - the Gospel was NOT preached to them, saving in hollow and unmeaning voices. That of all wrongs, this was the first mighty wrong the Pestilence warned us to set right. And that no Post- Office Order to any amount, given to a Begging-Letter Writer for the quieting of an uneasy breast, would be presentable on the Last Great Day as anything towards it. — Charles Dickens

Pack animals always tear apart the weaklings in their midst. Every child knows that much instinctively. — Peter Watts

Our thoughts dictate how we feel; so it is important to recognize that we are as we think we are — Jeremy Aldana

If we have learned anything, it is the horror that can happen when people don't think for themselves, but instead follow authority blindly. — Jacqueline Novogratz

I've had just about everything punched. I've had things grabbed that just shouldn't be grapped. — Tom Brady

It's very impossible to live by yesterday's standards and expect extraordinary results today. Live life with passion! — Muhammad Asad

He'd been unable to discern whether this frantic bustle of hers was what it claimed to be - an ardent determination to live every remaining day to the fullest - or quite the opposite: an evasion. An equally ardent determination to distract herself, from what only she could know, and thus a complete failure to inhabit her life in the scarcest respect. — Lionel Shriver

When I read a daring book or listen to rebellious music, I feel like I've found what freedom really means. — Carla H. Krueger

I have always said I would not have been President had it not been for my experience in North Dakota. — Theodore Roosevelt

I was with a special services unit in the Korean war, and when I got out, the biggest thing I got was a GI scholarship. — Chuck Feeney

Love gives one a kind of goodness. — Alexandre Dumas-fils

The loss of memory is the loss of identity, Rebekah. If you can't remember who you are, you are at risk of becoming someone else. — Tim Pratt

Peace must be more than the absence of war. — Helmut Kohl