Grata Quotes & Sayings

IMPOSSIBLE FRIENDSHIPS For example, with someone who no longer is, who exists only in yellowed letters. Or long walks beside a stream, whose depths hold hidden porcelain cups - and the talks about philosophy with a timid student or the postman. A passerby with proud eyes whom you'll never know. Friendship with this world, ever more perfect (if not for the salty smell of blood). The old man sipping coffee in St.-Lazare, who reminds you of someone. Faces flashing by in local trains - the happy faces of travelers headed perhaps for a splendid ball, or a beheading. And friendship with yourself - since after all you don't know who you are. — Adam Zagajewski

No matter who you are, no matter what greatness you've achieved in your life or what gifts you've given to the rest of humanity, if you criticize Israel, you must expect to become persona non grata. You should expect an utter onslaught of attacks ... — Susan Abulhawa

I learned that unemployment can be the great educator. — David Caruso

Question: What is something you sometimes want so badly you'd search for it your whole life? Answer: Your past Warning: Never look for your past. It always comes looking for you. — John Nuck

In any commersial setting time comes in three forms. There's real time, there's perceived time, and there's a combination of two. — Paco Underhill

The stars are always up in the sky ... then when it is perfectly black, they feel less vulnerable and out they come. — Heather O'Neill

I cant tell you the key to succsess, but the key to faliure is trying to please everyone. — Ed Sheeran

I'm very proud of being persona non grata. I've never been that before in my life, and that suits me extremely wellI'm known for provocations, but I like provocations when they have a purpose. And this had no purpose whatsoever. Because I'm not Mel Gibson. I'm definitely not Mel Gibson. — Lars Von Trier

Every golf course should have its carbon rating on the scorecard, alongside its Course Rating, Slope, par and yardage. — Thomas Friedman

Success is both an addiction and an enslavement ... — Paulo Coelho

Happiness: being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Living the rest of my life in Kerobokan, waiting to die, was what I had in front of me. — S.A. Tawks

You will never be lost to me, Selinne. — Emm Cole

In all the mad incongruity, the turgid stultiloquy of life, I felt, at least, securely anchored to myself. Whatever the vacillations of other people, I thought myself terrifically constant. But now, here I am, dragging a frayed line, and my anchor gone. — John Steinbeck

Central to everything I am and believe and have written is my astonishment, naive as it seems to people, that you can use human speech both to bless, to love, to build, to forgive and also to torture, to hate, to destroy and to annihilate. — George Steiner