Grievers Bill Quotes & Sayings

Success is not in what you have, but who you are. — Bo Bennett

A sermon is a valuable thing now and so impressive when you do hear a good one - and there is a lot of failure in the attempt; it's a difficult form - is because it's so seldom true now that you hear people speak under circumstances where they assume they are obliged to speak seriously and in good faith, and the people who hear them are assumed to be listening seriously and in good faith. — Marilynne Robinson

To ease the pain, erase the anger. — Anthony Liccione

Fuck, you've been to the sex store."

"Sure have." Josh held up a plastic bag. "Man, that was fun. And by fun, I mean seriously fucking creepy... — Lana McGregor

Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually? — Marcus Tullius Cicero

I'm not saying people should not be held accountable for their hurtful behavior. But the only thing blaming does is to keep the focus off you. It means you aren't dealing with your problems. — Art E. Berg

If they could swing it, most parents visited during meals to try to make their child's hospital room into a piece of the familiar by eating with them, and the kids - without exception - were too kind to tell them it only made home look that much farther away. — Kim Harrison

You don't really work together with Clint Eastwood. I mean, he takes the script and he shoots it - and he shoots it very faithfully. — Peter Morgan

As a people, we have been tolled farther and farther away from the facts of what we have done by the romanticizers, whose bait is nothing more than the wishful insinuation that we have done no harm. Speaking a public language of propaganda, uninfluenced by the real content of our history which we know only in a deep and guarded privacy, we are still in the throes of the paradox of the "gentleman and soldier."
However conscious it may have been, there is no doubt in my mind that all this moral and verbal obfuscation is intentional. Nor do I doubt that its purpose is to shelter us from the moral anguish implicit in our racism - an anguish that began, deep and mute, in the minds of Christian democratic freedom-loving owners of slaves. — Wendell Berry

Informed criticism is one thing, ignorant abuse quite another. — Peter Bray

There is so much going on all over the world that it's impossible for one person to keep up. And I can't. — Margaret Atwood