Gridspace Quotes & Sayings

In Philadelphia, I inadvertently came upon an edition of Robert Ingersoll's Essays and Lectures. This was an exciting discovery; his atheism confirmed my own belief that the horrific cruelty of the Old Testament was degrading to the human spirit. — Charlie Chaplin

The UK still has time to accelerate the take-up of renewable energy and put the nation on a path towards clean energy that is cheaper, stable and more sustainable. We have a stark choice: We can stay stuck in the last century's boom and bust approach to our economy in the way we consume energy and resources, or create a sustainable, stable and renewable energy infrastructure with the long term environmental and employment benefits that ensue — Phil Harding

The spirit of a nation is what counts-the look in its eyes. — Jean Giraudoux

In the morning you wake from one bad dream and another begins. — Italo Calvino

The great fish eat the small. — Alexander Barclay

I want to be normal. I really want anonymity. — Emma Watson

I do plead with the mothers of Zion to undertake modesty in dress. We may like to follow the fashion, but let us follow it in modesty. The most precious thing that a girl has is her modesty and if she preserves this in dress, in speech, in action, it will arm, and protect her as nothing else will. But let her lose her modesty, and she becomes a victim of those who pursue her, as the hare is of the hound; and she will not be able to stand unless she preserves her modesty. — L. Tom Perry

If I were a writer of books, I would compile a register, with a comment, of the various deaths of men: he who should teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live. - Michel de Montaigne, "That to Study Philosophy Is to Learn to Die — Paul Kalanithi

The Queen died. The King died."
"The Queen died. And the King died of a broken heart."
The first line was fact. The second line was a story. It placed the facts in context, added emotion and made us connect to it by making it memorable. — Daniel H. Pink

There comes a time when suddenly you realize that laughter is something you remember and that you were the one laughing. — Marlene Dietrich

Frankly, our music has too often been shallow, discordant, or played with a wooden concern for technical correctness but without feeling and passion. — Brian D. McLaren

Failure is relative. Life is adventure. Everything has beauty. — Debby Ryan

I don't ship anything. Except when I have to send packages through the mail. Now, please stop asking about fanfic. — Patrick Stump