Gratingly In A Sentence Quotes & Sayings

If crimes are committed they must be seen as a disease, and punishment as treatment rather than as social vengeance. — Daniel Guerin

I thought I'd reached the bottom a few times, but then I'd realise there was another 30 floors of despair below that. — Trent Reznor

I think not in two or three dimensional terms but in five dimensional terms when I consider a novel. There's height, width, and depth, there's the time factor, and then there's the factor which I call the cerebral factor of the reader, the way the reader adjusts to all the other dimensions, which is the fifth dimension. — Richard Grossman

But across the sea was this kingdom, and it was here I met the King," he said.
"And the Snow Queen," said Ophelia, "who made you her prisoner."
"Yes," said the boy. "But that wasn't straightaway. Many years passed first."
"What were you doing for those years?"
"Well, mostly I played and ate sweets," said the boy. — Karen Foxlee

If any one of us has had an ambition higher than that of making money; a motive better than that of expediency; a faith warmer than that of reasoning; a love purer than that of the self; he has been slow to express it; still slower to urge it. — Henry Adams

Well, you know, it's been in the back of my mind. I just cannot get it out of it. I'm miserable chasing money. I'm 30 years old going through a mid-life crisis! I just couldn't shut (it) off. — Drew Waters

To be successful in life and in ministry, you must have the power of holiness. — Sunday Adelaja

No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine. — A.J. Ayer

The world's largest debtor is a distinction of sorts, but not the one we like having ... — Daniel Patrick Moynihan

It's easier to hold onto a bad idea if you never share it, and it's harder to defend one if you let it out. — Victor LaValle

Challenge the negative by focusing on the positive of life. — Asa Don Brown

Every so often you have to increase your profile so you can let it lower again, like a balloon. — Robyn Hitchcock

I learned a great deal from [Raymond] Chandler - any writer can - but there had always been basic differences between us. One was in our attitude to plot. Chandler described a good plot as one that made for good scenes, as if the parts were greater than the whole. I see plot as a vehicle of meaning. It should be as complex as contemporary life, but balanced enough to say true things about it. The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure. Which means that the structure must be single, and intended. — Ross Macdonald

The way I work is mostly unconscious and instinctive. — Britta Phillips