Gravis Quotes & Sayings

Let us honor the Holy Ghost. — A.B. Simpson

Asceticism was not necessary for holiness. — James Carroll

When I'm curled up in his arms like this, I can never tell how my body looks to him. I worry that I seem completely ridiculous, but I have the ability to squeeze into any little space he leaves for me. I fold my legs until they take up almost no room at all, and curl in my shoulders until they're practically dislocated. Like a mummy in a tomb. And when I get like this, I don't care if I never get out; or maybe that's exactly what I hope will happen. — Yoko Ogawa

I like energy. I like to feel it cracklin', I like sexual energy in a room, and I like tension. — Patti Smith

The self-taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers; and, besides, he brags, and is the means of fooling other thoughtless people into going and doing as he himself has done. — Mark Twain

China attaches great importance to the utilization of renewable resources, making it one of the important moves to promote economic and social development — Hu Jintao

I think that China has many outstanding authors, and their great works should also be recognised by the world. — Mo Yan

Makes me wonder if God's even up there at all. And if he is, why ain't he doing a better job of things down here. Unless maybe he's doing the best he can. And if that's the case, he ain't doing no better than the rest of us. — Susan Adger

The real truth is, there's no such thing as a red state or a blue state, they're all purple. Some are more purple than others and our job is to get them all deep purple and then blue. And we can do that. — Howard Dean

If the definition of insanity is trying the same thing over and over and expecting different results, then passion is a form of mental retardation- deliberately blunting our most critical cognitive functions.
- Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy — Ryan Holiday

Teacher, as he was called, looked tiny, childlike, and deceptively vulnerable. — Tan Twan Eng

Death is not grievous to me, for I shall lay aside my pains by death.
[Lat., Nec mihi mors gravis est posituro morte dolores.] — Ovid

The consciousness of the body is more powerful than the consciousness of the mind. — Joey Lawsin

When she was a child, the witch locked her away in a tower that had neither doors nor stairs. — Marissa Meyer

Hitherto the conception of chemical transmission at nerve endings and neuronal synapses, originating in Loewi's discovery, and with the extension that the work of my colleagues has been able to give to it, can claim one practical result, in the specific, though alas only short, alleviation of the condition of myasthenia gravis, by eserine and its synthetic analogues. — Henry Hallett Dale