Grau Quotes & Sayings

People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations. — Agnes Repplier

For more and more of us, home has less to do with a piece of soil than a piece of soul. — Pico Iyer

Me? What am I? Nothing. The legs on which dinner comes to the table, the arms by which cocktails enter the living room, the hands that drive cars. I am the eyes that see nothing, the ears that don't hear. I'm invisible too. They look and don't see me. When they move, I have to guess their direction and get myself out of the way. — Shirley Ann Grau

Haven't you ever noticed how highways always get beautiful near the state capital? — Shirley Ann Grau

Somebody needs a bath, a steak, and a hack saw, that you very fucking much. — Lime Craven

Kindness is the supreme intelligence. — Bryant McGill

Relax, I'm going to be out there with you. — The Miz

At the end of a marriage it is difficult to recall the beginning. — Shirley Ann Grau

It was amazing how many colors there were, all running into the gutter in a stream: a dozen shades of blue, twenty different reds, and all that black soot, like a nightmare given form, the insides of a heart, destroyed so easily, done away with before anyone could stop the damage, or salvage what was lost, or even try to save him. — Alice Hoffman

ECassChoosesPikachu: Patrick's new favorite joke: What do you call an alligator in a vest? An "investigator" HA!
JoseyInHeels to ECassChoosesPikachu: The kid needs better jokes
SeanCassinova to ECassChoosesPikachu: MY NEPHEW IS BRILLIANT! — L. H. Cosway

Ideas come in pairs and they contradict one another; their opposition is the principal engine of reflection. — Jean-Paul Sartre

One of my current pet theories is that the winter is a kind of evangelist, more subtle than Billy Graham, of course, but of the same stuff. — Shirley Ann Grau

Oak trees come out of acorns, no matter how unlikely that seems. An acorn is just a tree's way back into the ground. For another try. Another trip through. One life for another. — Shirley Ann Grau

In brief, I spend half my time trying to learn the secrets of other writers - to apply them to the expression of my own thoughts. — Shirley Ann Grau

At the end of our lives we all ask, 'Did I live? Did I love? Did I matter?' — Brendon Burchard

A politician who has no compassion is nothing but an evil apparition; he is just a ghost, not a real man! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before. — Saint Augustine

There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline. — Michel De Montaigne

Even when we know what is right, too often we fail to act. More often we grab greedily for the day, letting tomorrow bring what it will, putting off the unpleasant and unpopular. — Bernard Baruch

What greater dignity can be put upon a mortal man, than to converse with his Maker, and to walk with God every day? — Thomas Watson

Justice is impartiality. Only strangers are impartial. — George Bernard Shaw