Gratiana Quotes & Sayings

Hubris itself will not let you be an artist. — Larry Wall

Here was a man who was trapped in a thicket of fear and confusion, powerless to escape. Dante's verse captured the feeling of my own depression and anxiety precisely. Wild animals blocked the man's path at every turn. Suddenly the shade of a great poet of antiquity, Virgil, appears before the man and promises to show him the hard road to a good place - but first the man has to trust him. — Rod Dreher

Difficulties will assail you only when you lack in concentration and persistence. — Walter J. Phillips

Suffering is always hard to quantify - especially when the pain is caused by as cruel a disease as Alzheimer's. Most illnesses attack the body; Alzheimer's destroys the mind - and in the process, annihilates the very self. — Jeffrey Kluger

Few things are more damaging to our democracy than a military officer who doesn't have the moral courage to stand up for what's right or the moral fiber to step aside when circumstances dictate. — Michael Mullen

Castiza: "False! I defy you both!
I have endured you with an ear of fire;
Your tongues have struck hot irons on my face!
Mother, come from that poisonous woman there."
Gratiana: "Where?"
Castiza: "Do you not see her? She's too inward then. — Thomas Middleton

Our faith is a mishmash of many things. We believe in family, in music and art, but we mostly believe in each other" -Giselle — Edwidge Danticat

She wasn't afraid yet. It took a lot to terrify someone who played in time and space like a bathtub. — Maggie Stiefvater

Was friend the word? He seemed more like a succession of extraordinary events than a person. — Douglas Adams

And learn that the best thing is
To change my loves while dancing
And pay but a kiss for a kiss. — William Butler Yeats

Penguins don't waste their time trying to fly. They're unique. They know they were built for the water. — Sidney Knight