Gregguser Quotes & Sayings

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver, and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings. — Edmund Burke

I love to talk with children. I try to visit schools but it's hard for me to travel when I'm trying to write. Some authors are able to do both. — Judy Blume

Adam sat back and scoured his recent memory. — Warren Ellis

I so want to believe him, but right now even his touch feels like a lie. — Emily Hainsworth

We are not going to toy with our religion or any other. Nor are we going to barter. We are here to extend our hands to build peace and harmony. — Feisal Abdul Rauf

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty ... But I am too busy thinking about myself. — Edith Sitwell

Slowing down is the precursor to Yoga practice because this simple act allows us to consider our thoughts, feelings and actions more carefully in the light of our desire to live peacefully. — Donna Farhi

Why is it that when we talk to God, it's called 'prayer,' but when God speaks to us, it's called schizophrenia? — Henry Blackaby

Where's my life gone? Where's it going? Looking across the grassy marshland to Flint and up the coast to Point Of Air, I start to wonder what all those poor fuckers in Wales are doing with their lives. Screwing? Sleeping in? Debating whether to take breakfast in bed to their broken fathers? Unlikely. They're probably doing what the gilded folk of Hollywood are doing, or Kowloon or Port Elizabeth. Worrying. Worrying about getting old, or about work, or about money, or about their boyfriend, mistress, lover, house, health, future. Life is shit. There is no fucking point to any of it. Not now that we've evolved past the survival stage. Maybe we used to live to hunt to kill to eat to live another day. Now we just kill time in as many sophisticated ways as possible. Pointless jobs. Pointless lives. Work. Television. Football. — Kevin Sampson