Griesedieck Quotes & Sayings

Experience is retrospect knowledge. — Hosea Ballou

Penelope? Thank you. For not leaving me alone to deal with this . . . when things got hard. other people would have. You're a true friend. — Svetlana Chmakova

The first recorded instruction given to Adam after the Fall dealt with the eternal principle of work. The Lord said: "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread." (Gen. 3:19.) Our Heavenly Father loves us so completely that he has given us a commandment to work. This is one of the keys to eternal life. He knows that we will learn more, grow more, achieve more, serve more, and benefit more from a life of industry than from a life of ease. — Howard W. Hunter

All governments, even these precious "democracies," derive all their power by force. Do something the government doesn't want, like, say, cross the street against the light, refuse to submit to its authority, and it won't be long before they'll use some form of force, usually a weapon and the threat of death or injury, to compel you to comply. — S. Evan Townsend

Without awareness of bodily feeling and attitude, a person becomes split into a disembodied spirit and a disenchanted body. — Alexander Lowen

I don't finish a lot of the books I read. I get enormous pleasure from reading half f them, two-thirds of them, even incredibly good books. But I don't feel it's my duty to finish them. I read the last few pages and find out what happens at the end. — Jackie French

Find yourself. And if you don't like what you see, re-create yourself. But first, please, find yourself. — Akif Kichloo

If by leaving a small pleasure one sees a great pleasure, let a wise man leave the small pleasure, and look to the great. — Gautama Buddha

I tend to cut David Brooks more slack than most people I know do, and I do it for one main reason. He can write. He's the best writer on that page, and I'd usually rather read him than others on that page I'm more likely to agree with. — Michael Tomasky

Where can I get some tat? I'd like to trade it in. — Aaron Allston

From this moment forward, we play by our own rules. Whatever it takes, whatever the cost. Our new mission begins now. — Lara Adrian

The root and source of all monetary evil is the government's monopoly on money. — Friedrich A. Hayek

Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow. — Alice Mackenzie Swaim

From Paris we took the Orient Express to Vienna. I must say I was terribly disappointed; nobody was murdered on the train. — George Burns