Grauens Quotes & Sayings

I began to think, The endowment has had a bad reputation in the last few years, and that's unfair. — Jane Alexander

Foolish woman, don't despair. My justice is My mercy. 5 — Joyce Carol Oates

Take life easily, lovingly, playfully, non-seriously. Seriousness is a disease, the greatest disease of the soul and playfulness the greatest health. — Rajneesh

Tipple sold his success much more effectively than he did. How to get excited about, take pride in something that came so naturally? It was like being honored for breathing. — Colson Whitehead

Custom is the great leveller. It corrects the inequality of fortune by lessening equally the pleasures of the prince and the pains of the peasant. — Henry Home, Lord Kames

She cannot become other than what she is. — Michelle Hodkin

For me there is no such word as 'luck' in the dictionary. — Fabrice Muamba

Proving he's a crazy son of a bitch, Pigpen flashes me that guilty-by-definition-of-insanity grin. "See, was talking so bad? A few weeks with me and you'll be ready for full-on family therapy. — Katie McGarry

Zen wants us to acquire an entirely new point of view whereby to look into the mysteries of life and the secrets of nature. This is because Zen has come to the definite conclusion that the ordinary logical process of reasoning is powerless to give final satisfaction to our deepest spiritual needs. — D.T. Suzuki

To commit the act of felo-de-se is a form of delusion. You see, my love, to leave one's life unfinished implies the possibility of success. What is left unlived may contain the potential truth one always seeks. Those who kill themselves do so with the conviction that they would have reached that truth eventually had they lived to the proper end. They die in the illusion of hope which in a way keeps the rest of us alive. Reason, therefore, for not committing suicide. — Raymond Federman

That man, we may be sure, is a person of true worth, whom those who envy him most are yet forced to praise. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

It's been a privilege to be here. — Paul Newman

My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher's kid. — Dorothy Malone

If you can avoid the grammatical bog of trying to wow English professors with your sentences, then you're well on your way to getting the reader to turn one page and then the next. — Scott Nicholson