Grievable Actions Quotes & Sayings

Progress does not compel us to settle centuries-old debates about the role of government for all time - but it does require us to act in our time, — Barack Obama

If you hold back on the emotions
if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them
you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your heard even, you experience them fully and completely. — Mitch Albom

There is no pleasure that I haven't actually made myself sick on. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

Daniel grinned. "Do something!" he told Jesse. "Marry her, before she does decide to marry Anthony Miller. — Heather Graham

Painting is like having a bad mistress who spends and spends and it's never enough ... I tell myself that even if a tolerable study comes out of it from time to time, it would have been cheaper to buy it from somebody else. — Vincent Van Gogh

Young people in my generation were sort of in lockstep, and it wasn't just the '40s, either. In the '30s and in the '50s it was the same. No one ever dropped out unless he got sick or got kicked out. — John Knowles

A nuclear power plant is infinently safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year. — Dixie Lee Ray

Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father during all those many days, and weeks and months when I didn't see my own father. — Stephen Sondheim

I can't text. My fingers are too big. — Denis Leary

Democracy is based on the majority principle. This is especially true in a country such as ours where the vast majority have been systematically denied their rights. At the same time, democracy also requires that the rights of political and other minorities be safeguarded. — Nelson Mandela

Which is more like genocide, I have asked some of my black brothers - this, the way things are, or the conditions I am fighting for in which the full range of family planning services is available to women of all classes and colors, starting with effective contraception and extending to safe, legal terminations of undesired pregnancies at a price they can afford? — Shirley Chisholm